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To: nihil who wrote (72373)	1/17/2000 9:47:00 AM
From: Michael M	Respond to of 108807

Nothing stays the same. You go forward or you slide back. It would be absolute madness for the United States to put a substantial portion of its arms development and production in the hands of the Russians. Why send them the money so they can keep lots of bright fellows busy dreaming up new ways to hammer us -- not to mention giving them the opportunity to design a weak spot in everything they sell us. The quality of Russian "fighter aircraft" can be a misleading issue, regardless of what side you're on. Theirs and ours are simply different in important ways. Defense is expensive and wasteful. But, either you have it or you don't. No doubt we could also save money and bother by standing down the Army and Marine Corps and hiring the requisite number of mercenaries from third world countries to do infantry chores. Bob McNamara tried to run defense strictly by the numbers. This got to the point of counting bodies and bullets to see how we were doing. I'd rather not go there again.