My mother always reminded me that US companies had sold scrap metal to the Japanese, including the remains of defunct elevated train track in NYC, that were "shot back at our boys during WWII".
I wonder how much of the stuff sold by the US to Iran is still in stockpiles, ready to hand out to terrorists or Islamist thugs backing the current regime?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair
Austria is no more, and no less, involved in the international arms trade, to the possible detriment of our troops, or their own interests in future conflicts, than the US and the other participants in the globabl arms trade are. There are always plenty of "players" willing to sell armaments to both sides in the various international rumbles that develop between nations in our global anarchic world. This is regretable, but to be expected as long as the anarchy exists. That's the nature of the beast.
For the record, as nasty as it is, I prefer the global anarchy above the level of the nation-state to the imposition of a top-down "world state" operated by the likes of the stinking kleptocrats who infest the halls of the UN bureaucracies. Anarchy must be cured from the "bottom up", beginning with individual self-government, followed by growing influence of self-governed individuals working up the chain of natural hierarchies, driving "order at the top". Top-down "solutions" are inevitably utopian monstrosities that ultimately collapse as their internal contradictions devour them. Recent example, the former USSR.
Incidentally, most on this forum will also be aware of
Chinagate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinagate
The way this article is being "tagged for bias" just indicates the dominant axe grinding tendencies at this source.
As far as Kerry goes, well, he is no worse than Jane Fonda. Enough said.