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Ok, we're going in circles. You can't use US policies as a constant in the international system. Why do I care about a rogue nations list if the US is the only one that creates and uses it? According to that list, am I a horrible person if I go on my summer vacation to Cuba? What if Germany came up with an anti-occupation mean country list and put the US on it? I'm not going to be bound by your argument that other actors in the international system must abide by US policies and decisions.
Maybe I'm reading your link wrong, but after 1990, no state sold weapons to Iraq. Atleast not according to that SIPRI link.
When it was legal you did, when it was illegal you didn't? Illegal according to who? the US? You only refer to this US created rogue states list. Again, why should such a list have any bearing at all in the international system?
Stop trying to inject a sense of morality into this so you can somehow put the US up on a pedestal. The US, like any other state, is a fair-weathered friend to freedom and democracy. Being the hegemonic power it has taken on a greater role in that respect but has continued on with its realist policies.
Where was this morality during the Iran-Contra affair? Why are you picking and choosing?
SLM3
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