Originally Posted by
Magplug
That is true of many technologies and products of US origin. However, regulating sales is one thing, clawing back that technology when your opinion of the recipient changes is quite another.
The population of the US expect their government to intervene with the 'Long Arm of Uncle Sam' whenever US interests are at stake. They are posessed with the notion that they have global jurisdiction. Watch any US TV action drama (NCIS and Hawaii 5-0 for example) and you will regularly see armed interventions being carried into other countries with no regard for their sovereignty. It appears to be accepted as the norm.
Sanctions derived from foreign policy concerns and also from national security factors actually are not better understood by reference to what can be invoked by reference to "US TV action drama" programs. Accuse me, if you like, of intuitive reasoning augmented by just very occasional legal experience with United States sanctions programs and their enforcement, but I'll assert that the writers who are responsible for "US TV action drama" programs have no actual appreciation for, or knowledge of, sanctions programs, their reasons for being, or enforcement.
Of course if you want to generalize from popular entertainment programming, why not include Rambo's mission back into Indian Country to liberate prisoners?