On Wednesday, our world politics class watched the film Lord of War a film with Nicholas Cage playing a historic arms dealer who sold many illegal arms to African and Middle Eastern countries. In the final portion of the film, the dealer was captured but released by the federal government because the US was force to lie on the covert supplying of arms to pro-American forces in Africa. This form of military supplying is a new act of international support by the US who would originally supply open arms trade with their neighbors. After the successful covert operations during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which involved the US military sending aid and weapons to the mujaheddin through the Pakistani government, the US grew to belief that supplying pro-American forces through the black market and arms dealers would conceal the US from foreign accusations of active military intervention in war-torn countries. This would also keep the US from being held accountable for supllying pro democratic groups that carry out acts of mass murder.