But this particular outsourcing won't stop there. Soon, with the collapse of the American textile industry, the whole uniform, and all their boots, will be made there.
We already outsource 50% of our military hardware, and the Administration won't defend the old Reagan-Standard of at least 65% U.S. content. Next we'll be 'outsourcing' our armed forces so that we can hire a million Indians and Mexicans to fight for us at 10% of what we pay our troops.
And that is the way Rome went down the toilet. Rome outsourced all its military know-how and jobs to foreign tribes, and its citizens preoccupied themselves with debauchery, corruption, bread and circuses. Patriotic sentiment died.
Next thing they knew the barbarians they had armed, and trained in their methods were at the gates. Rome was conquered.