JOSEPH Moakley, a member of the US Congress from the Republican Party, has said: "The US must get out of the business of training the foreign military. Democracy cannot be taught at the point of a bayonet." However, he made this statement five years ago, when the US military training project known as International Military Education and Training (IMET) was being criticized by international NGOs.

Now, IMET has been reopened. Actu