In January 2008 the President of the United States GW Bush visited the Middle East as I was touring the southwestern US and he
announced the sale of large amounts of armaments to Israel, UAE, and Saudi Arabia among others.  The proposition that the US
would sell very modern weapons systems to Muslim/Arab countries that are not content with the existence of Israel surprised many
people, not the sale itself but the lack of a strong negative response to the announcement by Israel.  At the time the sale was being
announced I was in Fort Worth, Texas and had the opportunity to sit down over a couple of beers with an old and trusted friend who
works for General Weapons, a major aero-space/military supplier of advanced aircraft, electronics, and airborne weapons systems.
Before working in the weapons industry Jack had a long career in military intelligence and then occupied several positions of
authority in various intelligence agencies.  The following is the meat and potatoes of our conversation, but care has been taken to
hide the identity of my friend.
Me: “Jack, I see in the press that the President is going to be supplying these very sophisticated weapons systems to Saudi Arabia.  
Don’t these weapons systems pose a threat to Israel, our staunchest ally in the Middle East?  And why hasn’t Israel raised a
commotion about this?”
Jack: “Well, Carl, you have to understand a few things before this will all be clear to you.  A lot of what I am going to tell you will have
to be very general because we don’t want to give away any secrets about specific aircraft or systems but let me say right off that
Israel has nothing to fear because they have been involved in the preparation of these sales to the Saudi’s and other Arab states.  
You see, at the plant the Israelis have their own intelligence people working alongside ours to make sure that the weapons that
their opponents receive are worthless in attacks on Israel.   This way, Halliburton, General Dynamics, Boeing, Grumman, Teledyne
and so many others can make a big profit off the Arabs without providing them with an enhanced capability.  The weapons systems
that they get would be good against other Arab or Muslim countries, Iran for instance, but not against Israel.”
Me: “Wait a minute, Jack, I don’t quite get this.  The Israeli military is helping plan the US weapons sales to the other Middle Eastern
nations?  And the other countries know about this?”
Jack: “I never said that Israel’s opponents know about the arrangement, I doubt it.  All I know is what is happening at the plants
where we are putting together the stuff for the arms sales and I’m not just talking about my shop, it’s all across the US armaments
industry.  We all work together on these projects.  That competitive bidding is just eye wash for the public.  The Pentagon wheels
and deals the contracts but then we all work together including the Israelis --- engineers from the different shops meet regularly to
make sure things work together.  What I am saying is that the arms that the Saudis get are steers, not bulls, and we work together
with the Israelis so that they are content with the sales to their enemies.  But, sometimes Israel complains publicly to cover their
butts on their home front and their complaints help keep the Arab arms purchasers believing that they are buying the real deal.”
Me: “Well, what are the Arab countries buying?  Can you clear this up for me a little bit?”
Jack: “Oky-dokey.  See if you can get around this idea.  Let’s say that the Saudi’s want to buy a certain advanced fighter plane for
their air force, a level one, top gun model that ranks with the best in the world.  Well, the Israelis would have some problem with
that so we sit down with them and plan a special edition of the plane with some interesting characteristics.  For example, the
electronics that we put in to the export model to the Arab countries will not recognize the transponders or “electronic signatures”
of Israeli Air Force aircraft.  Well they recognize them, but they filter and modify the information that is sent to Arab ground stations,
other  of their own aircraft, and the information sent to the on board weapons systems, even the heads up display for the pilots, is
“modified”.  Essentially, the planes are to turn a phrase, “flying blind”, unable to accurately read or respond accurately to threats or
targets.  Then, just to make sure about things we program the air to air missiles and other projectiles to miss targets identified as
Israeli --- we don’t want shoot downs of friendly. Of course we don’t do the same thing for the systems that we supply to the Israeli
Air Force, ground/air defense units and the like.  In fact we make sure that the Israeli detection systems light up like Times Square
on New Year’s eve as soon as an Arab aircraft (fires its engines) leaves any airfield in a hostile Arab country.  Hell, we put special
transponders in the Arab planes that notify the Israelis of every move the plane makes and alerts the Israelis to the weapons
systems on board including bombs, rockets, gunnery, electronic jamming systems, what ever.  The Israeli air force could be run by
high school drop outs and still destroy the Arab planes, essentially we have already programmed the Arab planes to self destruct if
they are directed toward Israel.  The really neat thing about this is we get the Arab money for their purchases and at the same time
we compromise their security more with every purchase.

We call this a Win/Win/Lose situation.  We win. Israel wins. And the Arabs lose.  And the Arabs pay the total cost, including the
equipment we send to Israel, while we make a handsome profit for our shareholders.  We also then have a loop into the Israeli
military, too, because they have to provide us with a lot of information so we can make this circus work.  So Win/Win/Lose is a pretty
good deal for our company.”
Me: “This is pretty weird stuff.  But the sales that have been described also involve some air to surface guided missile systems;
including some pretty long range ones.  These could still wreak havoc on Israel yet they haven’t complained about them. What’s
with this?”
Jack: “Same old, same old.  The missile systems that we sell to Israel will hit any targets that the Israelis choose that are within
systems range.  But the ones we sell to the Arabs have different, well a better term is modified, electronics.  We build in electronics
that if one of these missiles approaches within 50 miles or so of Israel, then the electronics misguide the system and it either hits in
the Red Sea, is that biblical or not, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, another Arab country, or the Mediterranean Sea.  Where they
won’t hit is Israel.  Again this is a Win/Win/Lose.  And a further benefit is that when the missiles from one Muslim country hit another
one that causes no end of problems for the Arab League, the Arab countries who have to deal with an Arab on Arab attack and all
that means.  You can see how this adds a further dimension of Win/Win for us and the Israelis.  We get to sell more missiles, the
Arabs become poorer, more dispirited from their lack of success even with new weapons systems, and Israel is more secure than
ever.  And the popular Arabian leadership is too damn dumb or too marginalized to realize that we don’t give a hoot in hell about
their safety.  The weaker and more disorganized that they are the better that we like it.”
“Long term, when their oil runs dry we don’t give a damn what happens to them.  They’ll just dry up and blow away.  Now, the royalty
knows this and they already have their places to run to when the time comes.”
Me: “Hell old buddy, I don’t know about all this.  It seems unreal that our country would be so slavishly tied to just one partner,
Israel, and let that relationship tie us to policies that are detrimental to other countries that we portray as partners.  If this is true,
we are double crossing the Arabs day in and day out.”
Jack: “Where have you got your head at?  You have to understand the national strategy.  Using these tactics we get much of the
Arab oil as cheaply as possible so that our oil companies do well.  We tie up the oil we can’t get, like the Iraqi oil so no one else gets
it. We screw the Iranians by keeping them isolated from the other Muslim countries, and we make a good profit off the enterprise.  
There is a reason that the CIA is referred to as “The Company”, it works for furthering US corporate domination of strategic regions
and increases the profits of US shareholders. And we help the Israelis which keeps them in the bag.
Sure there are some dangers, of course.  The Arabs could begin to buy weapons systems from other countries like Russia, the
People’s Republic of China, or even India and then all bets are off because we don’t have sufficient agents to seriously sabotage
the weapons systems provided to the Arab countries.  That is why we continue to cause trouble between those countries and the
Arab and Muslim nations.  We tout our systems as the best available and we pay a lot of bribes to military personnel from many of
our Arab allies, and others, to keep them buying from us.  For every million Muslim patriot there are two or three  willing to take a
bribe to help us.  Their kids need education, a chance to come to the US, all that stuff.  We do have a pretty good spy network in the
arms/aerospace/weapons system builders in India and Pakistan who have the capability to cause some havoc in those countries ---
financial and political machinations to undermine the opposition and/or support dictators such as Musharif.  Our company, General
Weapons, is the big time, we have a job do for America and we do it while making a nice sum, too.”
Me: “What do you think that the Arabs would do if they figured out what is going on?”
Jack: “Well, those who are compromised would work like hell to discredit and cover up the situation that discredits them while
continuing to work hand in glove with us. They’d run if they thought they were about to get caught for espionage against their ow.  
The honest people who love their own nation and feel at least some duty to it would be super pissed and fight to extricate their
country from our control.  We would have to eliminate them if possible, remember Sukarno and his supporters? Anyway, we would
use all our “company” strengths to prevent clients from leaving our embrace.  We would deny having sabotaged the weapons
systems on behalf of the Israelis and our fingerprints would be hard, but not impossible, to find on any decisive evidence.  Only a
few countries have the electronics engineering and science base to catch the engineering that we have devised to offset any
threat to Israel.  Of the ones that do have the capability, most don’t have many friends among the Arabs  so they won’t be asked in
by the Muslims.  Of course things change, alliances fall apart, governments are over thrown but if we are skillful and lucky we will
help guide the changes so they don’t weaken us.  Our company has a large staff of private salespersons in these countries at all
times working with their governments and the US diplomatic and intelligence staff placed there.  We aren’t called the
military/political/industrial complex without reason, good buddy.  We are in this for the long haul.  We are the front line.”
Me: “Well if I got it right then these sales of military hardware, electronic weapons systems are not at all what they appear to be.  Is
this why when the students and workers in Iran took over their country in 1979 that it was such a danger to the US?  Is that why
when the students reconstructed the documents that had been shredded in the CIA base that it took the US military a good bit of
time to recover?  Is that why we risked that stupid invasion of Iran, the one when the desert sands and winds ruined the equipment,
to retrieve that stuff and not really to rescue the hostages?”
Jack: “Well, I don’t want to go there too much.  But my friends, who were in Iran at that time say that, yeah, those troops were sent in
to try to recover the intelligence stuff, not rescue the hostages because the Republicans (US Republican Party --- the GOP) were
already dealing with the Iranians and no way would the hostages be hurt.  The fix was already in with Reagan’s election committee
people and the Ayatollah.  The GOP sacrificed our military assets who were left to die out there in Iran like garbage, but they were
low level assets and easily replaced, that’s the law.”
Me: “I find it disturbing that with our own economy falling apart Bush was in Saudi Arabia doing a sword dance with members of the
ruling Saudi family. It’s good they don’t know the truth or they might have used the sword to cut his balls off.  Do you think that this
could this become even a worse case of blow back, eventually, than the support that the Republicans gave to Osama Bin Laden in
the ‘80s when they funded him, trained his fighters, and provided intelligence?  It seems as though this is a game that will be run to
ground sooner or later.”
Jack: “Well, I am going to retire in about 18 months and then I don’t give a damn.  You know, “Hasta la vista, baby.” These policies
are made way over my head, and sometimes I think the people making them have their heads where the sun don’t shine but I just do
my job.”
Me: “Jack, this shit is an eye opener for sure.  But I can’t help but wonder what happens down the line.  Putting myself in the Arab’s
shoes I can only think that if I ever found out then I would be angry as hell at the US, Israel and the companies that we have done
business with, and looking for revenge. For Christ sake this makes it look like Hamas, Hezbollah and all the other radical Arabs have
less dirt on their hands than Israel and the US.”
Jack: “You studied history at the University, just like I did, and you know that no ruling country or empire lasts forever.  But for now
we are still riding on top of all the other countries and no one ever jumps off the gravy train while there are still meat and potatoes.
You remember that thing from Viet Nam, “Yeah, though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil for I am the meanest
son-of-a-bitch in the valley.” Well, that’s where we are at in the Middle East, too --- of course it cost a lot of American and
Vietnamese lives but who was counting?  Who is counting now in Iraq?”

After this last exchange Jack and I finished our beers, shook hands as old friends and I drove my rental car to Chicago and
pondered the question: If the good people of our country don't organize and defeat these nut cases won't we go down in history as
cowards? Just like good "Germans" who followed the dictates of an evil totalitarian party into war and national disgrace.
Unite the many, defeat the few
---fight for democracy!
Charlie (aka Carl) Fry story page 2 --- if it sounds believable, well
believe it. Otherwise just read for enjoyment and thought.

Arab Weapons Sales by the US and Israeli non-reaction.
Independent Intelligence Service, 2/1/2008
A work of art by Carl Fry