Syria to Be Solved Internally Not by U.S. Action: Obama

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9. What about the death squads in Bahrain?

http://www.propublica.org/article/americas-arms-sales-bahrain-crackdown

Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation.

Defense Department documents released to ProPublica give the fullest picture yet of the arms sales: The list includes ammunition, combat vehicle parts, communications equipment, Blackhawk helicopters, and an unidentified missile system.

The way we pick and choose which atrocities demand our intervention (Syria, Nigeria), and which don't (East Timor, Rwanda, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia), puts the lie to the Government's crocodile tears over human suffering. They cynically use this suffering to justify intervention for their own imperial designs.