ALEXANDER INNES  ARGUES DONT SELL AMS TO BAHRAIN (US PUPPET REGIME),IT WILL STRENGTHEN IRAN!!!  http://fairobserver.com/article/cancelling-bahrain-arms-deal-assures-us-national-security?page=3  Finally, the very existence of an absolute monarchy in the Gulf is in its dying days. The Arab Spring has profoundly changed the relationship between rulers and ruled, and will, in due time, deeply affect the monarchies of the Gulf. In Bahrain, where these sectarian divisions are most ripe for explosion, the tensions have already boiled over. In Saudi Arabia, the financial largess of the regime, which reportedly increased domestic spendingby $130 billion for the next five years, will only go so far. Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia has seen women protesting for their rights, youth stretching the boundaries of the imposed social morals, and most recently, Shi’a in eastern provinces protesting for equal rights. Furthermore, the old age of the Saudi ruling family, a bastion of regional “stability,” will come to haunt the regime as these elites die, like Crown Prince Sultan recently, and as the dynastic succession becomes more ambiguous. Saudi Arabia will lose its authority as a counter-revolutionary force, thereby increasing the likelihood that other Gulf countries, who depend on Saudi largess, will succumb to domestic pressures.The US has just witnessed how incredibly painful a revolution can be to American regional interests. The downfall of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, who assisted the US in maintaining its policy towards the Palestinians and suppressing radical Islamists in the country, greatly changed US regional calculus. The US has no interest in the rapid collapse of the Bahraini ruling family, let alone the House of Saud. The US should encourage rapid democratization, not the entrenchment of a disillusioned and barely-clinging-to-power royal family.When taken together, the sale of these weapons would strengthen the hand of Iran and would reduce American credibility at precisely the time it is needed most. The Arab Spring has profoundly changed the dynamics of the Middle East.  Social media has amplified the voices calling for change in Bahrain. Were the US to complete this sale, the Government of Bahrain would be incrementally better armed, but would find itself facing a more determined and externally supported internal opposition.
[THIS GUY IS ALL OVER THE MAP,FIRST HE ARGUES THE US PUPPET MONARCHIES SHOULD DIE,AND WILL DIE OFF,THEN HE ARGUES,THEY SHOULD BE STRENGTHENED,THEN REPEATS ALREADY DEBUNKED LIES IRAN OR EXTERNAL HANDS ARE BEHIND BAHRAINS OPPOSITION...ONE THING IS CLEAR HES GRASPING OUT OF DESPERATION,THAT US RESTORE ITS CREDIBILITY IN REGION(ED NOTE:IT NEVER HAD ANY!!!).HES NOT ARGUING DONT SELL ARMS TO BAHRAIN PUPPET REGIME SO AS NOT TO INFLICT MORE CASUALTIES,HES ARGUING THIS WOULD STRENGTHEN IRAN!!! INNES IS AN ''ORIENTALIST'' OF COURSE!