"Diplmacy without arms," said Frederick the Great, "is like music without instruments." A former Tory defence secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, quoted him this week in defending the sale of arms to countries thought likely to use them responsibly.rnThey presumably include the 45 or so states that sent delegations on September 8th to the world's biggest arms-fest, the Defence Systems & Equipment International (dsei) show in London. Libya and Saudi Arabia were among those invited.
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