Travesty of the situation

This is apropos a news item 'US dominates arms trade as Asia, Mid-East boost imports', carried by Business Recorder on February 23. That the title or caption of this news item is profound is a fact that has found its best expression in the current unprecedented turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East. As the news item says, the global transfer of major arms has risen in recent years, with the United States increasing its dominance of the trade while the flow of weaponry to Africa, Asia and the Middle East has increased.
Not only are the US and Russia, the successor state to the defunct Soviet Union, major exporters of arms and ammunition, they are also playing the role of "peacekeepers" in the war-torn region. What a perversion of, distortion of, misrepresentation of, corruption of...!