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To: AC Flyer who wrote (26285)	12/18/2002 10:45:59 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Hi AC. Let me get this straight: You are trying to imply that you discount my opinion due the fact that I am a Brazilian? Well, pretty soon you will say you don't accept my opinion because I dropped out high school :-) Do you mean that some people have the monopoly of the knowledge based on the coordinates (latitude/longitude where he was born, or, is it the color of the passport? Where do you come from? You migrate to the US, don't you? Your ideas have the hallmark of an migrant to a new land. Usually people who migrate to a certain destination tend to defend with nail and claw the newly adopted land. They turn a blind eye for everything that is real -in the land they arrived- due to the happiness they have encountered there. I have a Brazilian of Japanese origin that is like that. For him Heaven is Fresno and -despite being an intelligent person- is totally and absolutely clueless what DC is about or what monopolist capitalism is. OK, is your way to say thank for the land that adopted you. But there are people who don't have to Kow Tow and they know things that you will discover the hard way in the future.

To: AC Flyer who wrote (26285)	12/18/2002 11:33:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

ACF, the main issue about USA military budgets vs other military budgets is that USA soldiers are paid comparably with other Americans. They are paid a fortune compared with Chinese and Indians, where a fleet of soldiers can be hired for the same cost as one American. But then there is the qualitative difference where USA military equipment, [such as gold-plated toilet seats], which typically costs a fortune compared with the non-military specification product at Home Depot or Wal-Mart, vastly outperforms military equipment used by Chinese, Iraqis and Osama. With the latest compressed air toilets, US military toilets will be able to flush with a fraction of the water normally used. Which will be a great help in the Iraqi desert. The poorly equipped Iraqis probably won't even have flush toilets, let alone jet-propelled models. The big question then is; with their high salaries and jet-propelled toilets, [resulting in the biggest military budgets the world has ever seen], can the American soldier outperform the hillbilly with a starting blocks model? Will satellite-based high-powered lasers and radar-targeted defence shield rockets intercept incoming dirty used uranium/diesel/fertilizer bombs in shipping containers. Will highly-trained and well-paid sky marshalls succeed in intercepting low-paid disease-bearing Moslem customers who spray aerosols in movie theatres? Money can't buy love and I'm not sure that it's a necessary and sufficient condition to win respect militarily. Mqurice