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While I have a deep distate for the arms trade, I can also see that a deal that keeps jobs in cities where the biggest single employer is BAe, keeps petrodollars invested in our economy and keeps intelligence cooperation running with a country that's intimately familiar with islamic radicalism might be attractive to a politician, even if it means we've basically gotten in bed with a regressive illiberal kleptocracy.
Doesn't mean I agree with it or would do similar. But it's a bit more complicated than just venal moneygrubbing.