[Jeff Head]

FYI...they continue to build modern detroyers, frigates, nuclear attack subs, IAP diesel subs, underway replenishment vessels, amphibious assault vessels, etc., etc. to go along with this carrier and the two others they are starting to build.

...and we are funding it.

[Joe Boucher]

All the better to be able to kick hell out of Viet Nam when they fight over ocean bottom riches.

[Ernie Kaputnik]

“...and we are funding it.”

That’s right, keep shopping at Wal-Mart America. IDIOTS!

[henkster]

The underway replenishment vessels bother me. This isn’t a coastal defense navy. This is projection of national power into any corner of the world they want. For the past 60 years or so, that was our exclusive domain. Seems the Chicoms read Mahan.

[NVDave]

Yep.

Brilliant own goal, IMO. Somewhere, someone had a brilliant idea within Republican party circles: “I know! Let’s give a bunch of communists a huge, growing and persistent trade surplus! This way, we can have a real need for sky-high military spending out as far as the eye can see! We’ll even let the communists make high tech hardware and we’ll import the same stuff we used to make here in the US from the commies!”

“Why, that sounds insane? How are we ever going to sell that to the American people?”

“We’ll call it.... ‘Free Trade.’ “

[Eaker]

How much of that technology was stolen or sold by Clinton?

[Lexinom]

That's exactly right.

Keeping ignoring where things are made when you shop, people!