We sell the drones to the friend of our enemy. They fight their enemy. In the meanwhile, they reverse-engineer the tech enough to know how to kill the kill-switches. The friend of our enemy become our enemy. Like in afghan land. Now they use them against us. No more kill-switches, so friendly un-friendly fire? Not worth the risk. All we need to do is eet more chiken.
No reverse engineering if we let Apple design that part. Besides, those caves in Afghanistan aren't conducive to re-flashing micro-processors. Saudi either. Sand's a bitch.
There is no 'big deal' and it wasn't about the sale of arms , it was about anything that doesn't sound nice to his ears automatically becomes 'lies and fake news.'