[joe fonebone]

There ya go again Sam, making and putting reason into a purely emotional debate... damn you sam, damn you to hell..... :)

[skeeter]

China, the most likely military opponent of the US, is aknowingly allowing the production and export of substandard components that are ending up in US defense systems.

Setting aside all of the reasons they might see this as beneficial to their ends, a) does it really matter whether they did so intentionally? and b) is there anything wrong with being concerned about it?

[jurroppi1]

Only someone who is either totally naive or willfully dishonest intellectually can make the claim you just made. Obviously you’ve either never worked in the electronics field, or if you have you’ve never worked in a proper QA role and/or taken quality seriously. Of course I work with a lot of people on the supplier side in a major medical device manufacturer that think the same exact way you just did - it is terrifying to think we rely on people who think like this...