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al queda's primary leadership, bin laden and others, were based in iraq and the government was terribly unstable. currently the UN plan is to have an occupation force(about 85% US troops) patrol with and assist in the training of new military and police forces with in iraq.
currently the US is not a part of any military offensive in iraq, only police actions under the shared direction of the UN and the iraq government.
you just made another on eof my favorite stupid statements. what does w have to do with his dad? did america get attacked on it's own soil under george sr's administration?
sr took action based on a 40 year old treaty with the government of kuwait to offer mutual aid in time of conflict. the treaty invovled the US, kuwait, united arab emerites(sp?), and iran. that is why the us troops stopped at the iran/iraq border.
china is not an immediate threat to the US, and have not politically shown any desire to become one. so we don't have to worry about them right now. although i am sure the US government is keeping an eye on them.
as far as who supplies arms to whom, who cares. at some point the US government has supplied arms to nearly every nation in the world, including the swiss. the soviet union has taken the lead in this department since it's collapse as it opened up a massive supply of cheap weapons to the world market.
not that it makes much fo a difference who gives the weapons out. because we all know there is someone somewhere who can deliver anything for a price.
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