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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (317533)	12/27/2006 8:08:41 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1585693

"Do you think we've always been good at it from the get go? Probably......huh?" It started with WW II, when we became "the arsenal of democracy", then mutated into the "military-industrial complex" Ike warned us about. Cold war fears kept the weapons coming. Now, the rag-tag terrorists are used to fearmonger, since each one of them is capable of 9/11. Before WW II, we really weren't too involved in weapons production, and started that war with a bunch of obsolete crap from WW I. Now, as our military officers rotate into their lucrative post-military careers in the weapons industries and congresspeople like Jane Harmon (bombers - she wears a bomber pin on her lapel - it's built in her district) and many others, we're stuck with being the world's top weapons builder. I'm sure it's our main industry now, probably certainly our leading export.