[primeval patriot]

How do we protect ourselves when every nation under the sun makes our weaponry and the parts to make or repair such? We are in a very precarious position as a nation.

Ever wonder why the committed free traders disappear whenever someone brings this up? I've yet to see any response to this issue at all.

Then there are those who are fixated on Superbowl half-time circuses.

In the future they'll be wondering why a PLA soldier is in their house interrupting that night's edition of Entertainment Tonight.

[LowCountryJoe]

As a committed free trader I'll have you know that it's not necessarily the weapon systems being produced by foreigners that scare me, it's the communications equipment that should be the our main concern. It scares the hell out of me that someone will one day engineer a communications device that will "inadvertently" broadcast its crypto fills.

Oh, and we have enough surplus of weapon systems and rolling-assets to sustain us through heavy losses, which would buy America enough time to divert its resources back to a manufacturing phase, if needed.