There is a serious surge of demand for bullets due to the Iraq war. Bullet manufacturers in this country don't sit around with spare manufacturing capacity just in case a war breaks out. They manufacture enough bullets to meet standard demand. So, it only makes sense that in such a situation, we would need to turn to foreign manufacturers.
What would have been your solution? Government subsidies to bullet manufacturers to allow them to keep lots of unused manufacturing capacity, just in case?
There is only one bullet plant left, and it runs 24/7. And it's not like the need for bullets came as a big surprise. We just can't build bullets any more, to high tech for us dumb Americans, like yall say, Americans are just lazy bums, good enough to die in war but not good enough for a descent job, got to give those to those to the working Chinesse, of Japanese of Indians.
"There is a serious surge of demand for bullets due to the Iraq war. Bullet manufacturers in this country don't sit around with spare manufacturing capacity just in case a war breaks out."
And if war is with China? Would the Chinese gladly sell us bullets to shoot them with?
Man, you ARE a piece of work!
Who supplied our bullets during WW II?
Who the hell PLANNED this "War"?
BTW, your supercilious answer to my question about our being in a bind for putting armor on Iraq bound vehicles demands a second shot at a reply.
Your suggestion that the problem arose out of the "specialized" nature of the work is hilarious.
Our GI's improvised in the field to accomplish this work themselves in a pitifully sad attempt to make up for the failure of the DOD and the sad state of our mfg capacity.
Oh, and did you catch today's latest word out of the Ministry of Propaganda"?
The War on Terror is officially over.
We are now engaged in "a global struggle against violent extremism" rather than "the global war on terror," which had been the catchphrase of choice.
It is what we used to do before Clinton. And btw...who are you going to buy your bullets from when we are at war with China?
Guess you have no answer to the China problem whatsoever...which is bleeding our industrial base away.