Ironic, it seems we can't leave until they get Weapons of Mass Destruction.:0003
This is right out of "Neoconservative Geopolitics for Dummies".
Selling arms to unstable regimes is just part of building and maintaining a military empire that spans the globe. Power vacumms are created, then filled by a puppet regime, financed and armed by us, until our chosen dictator's ego and his army are so large, he eventually goes rogue and we have to take him down by mounting a large scale military invasion half way around the world, thus insuring the cycle continues.
It's imperative that the military industrial complex be preserved at all cost, Stevie. :0003