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Politics : Sioux Nation

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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (159883)	2/7/2009 6:54:41 AM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (3) of 361967

It saddens me greatly that we such enormous sums on weapons - yet I am not prepared to say we don't need them. The cost of the F22 including the billions in R&D is closer to $200 million. The R&D is a sunk cost so it's not relevant to the current $138 million cost of production. Nevertheless, when one thinks of all the hospitals, schools, bridges, that $2 billion per year to keep the F22 line open could buy... The expensive, high tech stuff is needed, I think, but so is low tech. High tech won the initial rounds in Iraq and Afghanistan but it's the low tech, boots on the ground relationships with the local populations that will determine success or failure. We need relationships as much as weapons...

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