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Over-compensation. Duh. Insecure people think that owning something that looks expensive and flashy is an expression of their awesomeness, instead of a desperate cry for attention to which they feel entitled. In the case of Third World dictators, it's a way for them to make themselves feel highly successful and civilized even though everyone knows that they're presiding over failed states that would collapse if not for aid money and/or oil. You know, "Look, I'm running such an awesome country that my bodyguards and special forces carry gold-plated assault rifles - even though I had to skim $1 million from my latest IMF loan to have the guns customized."
And this is Qaddafi we're talking about - a guy who was always desperate to be taken seriously in the international community, even though everyone saw him as a huge joke (including other Arab leaders, who were hardly paragons of competent governance themselves). When Qaddafi's regime started to collapse, I remember thinking that they were going to discover lots of golden guns at his residence(s), just like Saddam's. It seemed natural to expect from a man whose insecurities came out every time he opened his mouth in public. To borrow a phrase from "Fight Club", I think the yardstick of civilization is whether your country's leader has gold-plated firearms.
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Uh, it's called BLING. And feeling civilized has nothing to do with it. I know of inner city thugs who sport bright nickel guns with gold highlights, and even gold plated guns (Desert eagle used to offer gold plated versions of their guns though I haven't seen one in a store for a long time). It's the thug mentality of bright shiny objects.
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Oh, yes because the F-22 is nothing more than a screwed product of the military industrial complex and has no relevance in the current global security scheme of things.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...AFSecurity.jpg (I'd hotlink the image itself, but it's GIANT) ...which consists of a single designation referring to a hodgepodge of M16 carbines with components that, in some cases, date back to the early 1960s.
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