Refugees who poured out of Khormal yesterday also wanted to know why a superpower that prided itself on the accuracy of its weaponry appeared to have got it wrong.
They accused the government of negotiating trade deals to sell the Gulf state cyber surveillance technology which the UAE government uses to spy on its citizens, and weaponry which, they allege, has been used to commit war crimes in Yemen.
Orwell was sure that once Hitler was defeated, the Home Guard would turn its weaponry on the ruling class and nationalise the banks.
Higgins, White said, is "basically the standard now for what's going on in weaponry".
But soldiers on the ground have told the BBC's Jim Muir they would feel "more confident" if they were better equipped to take on IS weaponry.
Warner Brothers, whose "The Dark Knight Rises" was playing in Aurora during last July's shootings, has been soft-pedaling weaponry on its posters lately (unless you count the robots and helicopters pounding each other in the ads for "Pacific Rim").
As officials in America and Taiwan see it, China's massive deployment of missiles and other offensive weaponry on its coast facing Taiwan since the late 1990s is far from conducive to an end to American arms sales.
America declined to sell Taiwan the most advanced weaponry on its wish-list; work on China's entry to the World Trade Organisation has intensified, with full American support; China was delighted that neither the administration nor Congress tried to block its successful campaign to win the 2008 Olympics.
General Moltenskoi said that when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Georgia, like other Soviet republics, inherited the weaponry on its territory, including 147 of the missile systems, known as Igla, or needle, which it is now accused of supplying to the rebels.
