Sodium cyanide is a dual-use chemical. It is used to make the nerve gas sarin, as well as commercial products including pesticides and plastics. The chemical is controlled by the 34-nation Australia Group, a voluntary coalition of states that agree to curb exports of dual-use chemicals that can boost the chemical weapons programs of states like North Korea. Germany is a member of the group. A German Embassy spokesman could not be reached for comment. With friends like these, who needs friends? We should have sank it in the German harbor it loaded up in. That would have sent their Greens into apoplexy, and made the point to the rest of their government quite succintly.
Seriously, if the French and Germans think that they can arm our enemies to the teeth and dismiss it as 'Nothing personal, America, just business', they're going to be in for a shock. In the coming year they're going to regret every red cent they made off of Iraq and North Korea.
Actually, I'm beginning to wonder if there are those in Germany who have picked up the muslim philosophy that you never lose a war--you just sign agreements that mean nothing, then keep coming back at your enemy.
I find it very odd that the Vichy French and Germans are the ones supplying our enemies and continuing WWII by proxies.