It shouldn't be a time to glorify war with an air show and a display of weapons to entice young people to enlist in more wars.
It is not unusual for Syrian state television to show collections of weapons taken from opposition fighters, but what is unusual are the weapons captured.
The Iraq war was sold to the American people in part with carefully annotated satellite photos that purported to show evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
That Trump chose to make a public show of Saudi weapons purchases when that country is conducting a brutal war in neighboring Yemen that is resulting in thousands of civilian deaths could be even more problematic.
At the rear of the main house, a room held mountains of papers, some from training manuals showing diagrams of weapons.
He also talked to soldiers involved in gun battles along the border and was shown dozens of weapons seized from smugglers in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, the American painter Kimberly Brooks suggested that Americans ditch their own ritual: "The handshake is an obvious vestigial gesture left over from a time when hands needed to be shown free of weapons," she wrote in The Huffington Post.
In court on Thursday, prosecutors showed dozens of weapons allegedly stockpiled by Bulger's gang.
They are not made to help Iran show its lack of weapons intentions but in the hope that convincing incriminating evidence will be found.
A1 Changes in Iraq, Photos Show A team of weapons inspectors, studying satellite photography, has identified several nuclear-related sites in Iraq where new construction or other unexplained changes have occurred since the last international inspections nearly four years ago.
