[okie01]

"...the best justification we've got is that they have the potential to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. The fact that we have historically been a supplier of the materials necessary to create that potentiality is hardly bogus."

Providing cultures for agricultural research is a far step from genetically altering, weaponizing and manufacturing bio-warfare materials in quantity.

Might as well trash the USA for shipping scrap iron to Japan prior to WW II "because they could build tanks out of it."