Well, the only good part is that we still have the technical know-how to build all of this stuff. We haven’t lost that. Some day, we might be faced with a huge national emergency (hopefully when a Conservative is in the White House) and we will HAVE to rebuild all the “infrastructure” of our military capability. Sure, it will be expensive, but we have proved that with the proper motivation, and the right people in power, and with sufficient funds allocated, we can accomplish a great deal in a short period of time.
We have the oil resouces within our borders that the libs currently won’t let us touch. Those reserves are still there, and can be tapped as soon as enough motivation exists to sweep the libs out of the way. Ditto’s with weapons and technology. We have already done a lot of the advanced research to build the things we need. Lasers, hypersonic missiles and aircraft, robots, and such. We just need the leadership to clear the decks so we can get it done.
I hate to think that we be “forced” to embark on a massive “overnight” build-up like we did in WWII (with another Pearl Harbor-like attack upon us), and I hate the fact that Obambi is putting us in such a position. However, if we DO get hit with another Pearl Harbor, if the likes of Sarah Palin are in office at the time, we DO have the know-how, raw materials, and ability to quickly build factories (or convert existing facilities), and get ourselves onto a wartime footing in relatively short order, if we literally throw everything we have at the effort. It would be painful, expensive, and it might take longer than we hope, but it could be done. We have a lot of empty factories sitting around our country.
We would also need to reconstitiute our Intelligence capabilities. But again, we know HOW to do that too, and we have plenty of brains here in the USA capable of doing it, it just needs the proper leadership and will to get it done.
So, the only long-term hope a China or Russia would have would to be able to cripple our domestic capabilities here in the USA. However, they lack the ability to do that with conventional weapns and forces, and will for sometime to come. That is why they want to have libs in power here as much as possible - to to prevent us from getting our act together.
They may also hope to overwhelm us with nukes - which is another reason they are using the current libs in power to try to get us to dump them. This is why we need real Conseratives in charge NOW. It will be much easier to rebuild now, and thwart our enemies, while there is no “immediate” emergency. We can do it quickly if we have to, like WWII or even the Apollo moon shot, but I shudder to think of the level of national emergency we would have to experience in order to get us to actually initiate such an action (and if we keep having the libs in power, we are finished anyway, they would prevent such a build-up - even in a grave emergency).
So, lets boot out The “O”, and his commie friends, and get the rebuilding underway now, on our own terms, at a more comfortable pace. That way we never have to worry about the WWII Pearl Harbor scenario again.
If you don't continuously modernize, you lose the ability to do so, at least in a timely manner. To be a *good* engineer, one much have experience as well as knowledge. Both are often somewhat specialized, and while the knowledge doesn't lose value very quickly, the experience does.