Ethical foreign policy? What ethical foreign policy?

The British government has a list of countries that it views as "countries of concern" as regards their records on human rights abuses. There are 20 such countries on the list including Saudi Arabia, Israel, Colombia, China and Russia. The British government has recently licensed arms sales to 19 of these countries. I am not sure about this but if the US turns out to be the 20th country everything would be explained after all they don't need to import weapons, do they?

The Islamic Republic News Agency out of Iran has a slightly different slant on the story.