Still, India wants the high-technology weaponry that American companies produce and that the United States has been leery of selling India because of its nuclear program.
"It will be risky, in fact, to sell high quality and technology armaments because at the end of the day, these armaments will be used as Saddam Hussein has used high-technology weaponry," he said.
When the battle for the Iraqi capital begins, he said, American advantages in high-technology weaponry, and American commanders' preference for attacking the enemy with long-range weapons to avoid casualties, would be minimized, and the Iraqis' strengths, of endurance, willpower and a readiness to fight for their own territory, would prevail.
Russia is China's largest supplier for high-technology weaponry, as the United States is Taiwan's largest supplier under the terms of the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, which binds Washington to provide adequate resources to the island so that it can defend itself in case of military pressure.
Alongside the contrivances of postapocalyptic architecture, there's the gleeful fantasy of the artifacts, technology, and weaponry.
It reunites Hawke with Andrew Niccol, with whom he made Gattaca and the underrated Lord of War, two other films dealing with the moral complexities behind technology and weaponry.
"We need to have technology and weaponry in place, but we also need the operational policy and political will to use this as a deterrent.
To the contrary, they have actually caused pirates to push out of the Gulf of Aden deep into the Indian Ocean and to adopt more sophisticated technology and weaponry in response.
Much as the political leaders in Russia and America might like to divert science and technology from weaponry to livingry, they are prevented from doing so by the opposition leaders within their own systems, who would use any relaxation of the national military posture as evidence of weakness or treason.
Sure, it's a bunch of stuff from the early 1800's, but there's still some cool old war technology and weaponry there.
