[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...The key issue here is the need to protect our strategic industrial base. The US is already in the position of having to contemplate war with powers, like China, upon which we are dependent for a wide variety of manufactured goods. This is a problem for extremely obvious reasons...

It's not just the manufactured goods we depend upon,which will eventually render us incapable of resisting, but our politicians are dependent on the Chinese cash that still lines the pockets of both parties.

When the war with China comes, they will have not only gained the advantage of denying us weaponry, but they will have our leadership firmly by the neck.

[Gunslingr3]

When the war with China comes, they will have not only gained the advantage of denying us weaponry, but they will have our leadership firmly by the neck.

I haven't sewn my white flag yet, do I still have time?