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To: Dan B. who wrote (237133)	3/12/2002 11:40:32 PM
From: joseph krinsky	Respond to of 769670

You can try to approach it from any angle you want to, to try and make your argument sound good, but for me you're wasting your time. We're not talking about parts for a stereo, or leather for a baseball glove, we're talking about a basic industry that IMO the country cannot do without, if it wants to maintain it's independence in the production of war materials. It's not the supplying of steel in the raw, it's what is done with it afterwards. If we are cut off from supply of raw, we'll find it in other ways, no question in my mind. But if we have no steel plants, we are totally dependent on the whims and waves of how the wind blows in the countries that we are getting what we need from. We become like Iraq, or Isreal, or whoever, that once their purchased arms are gone, they essentially cannot fight any more. As far as countries being so intertwined and that's why we'll have all this co-operation, have I been asleep? Have I missed something? I don't see where we have all this co-operation everywhere. LOL. In fact what I see, is the world basically being at war with one another somewhere all the time. One year it's this country, the next year it's that country. If we wait long enough everyone gets a shot at everyone else sooner or later. It equal opportunity destruction. Knowing the above, I say.. I don't want to put my destiny or our country's destiny (safety) in another's hands, I want US to be the keeper of the key. let someone else do it the other way. We'll hold their wallets for them if they like, but they don't have to hold our wallets for us, we'll do that ourselves. Just let them sit down and don't be so ready to do us any favors in making sure that we'll have all we need, because once that happens, you just never know. As far as japan being our enemy again, what makes you think it can't happen? Russia was our friend for a while, then we were their enemy for a while, now we're their friend again. The same with China. These things constantly change. Look at all we did for the arabs, and look at how they treat us. They cut us off from oil once, don't you think they would do it again if they thought it would work? These utopian ideas all sound great, but somehow they just never seem to work in real life. That's probably because we are all human, with human failings, and not textbooks in a college. Those professors get it right occassionally, but more often than not, they generally seem to have the stellar track record of economists. Always shaking their heads afterwards mumbling.."But that wasn't supposed to happen, I have it all here in chalk on the blackboard". "Oh wait, I forgot to factor in the snow in Tibet that no one took any notice of." Free trade is okay for some things, but IMO not for others. There are other considerations that have to be looked at, than just dollars and cents. Free trade all the popcorn everyone wants to, but stay away from things that at some point in time, maybe tomorrow, or 10 years from now, that the very existence of the country may depend on. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.