A Manufacturing Industry in which we excel.

[KlatooBNikto]

In fact, I would say no one even comes close.

This is the Manufacturing of Death dealing weapons.

Start with atomic weapons which we were the first to create and use.

Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of the Manhattan Project, after the Alomogordo test of the first atomic weapon in history, was so overcome with remorse, he went to President Truman and said"Mr.President, my hands are dripping with blood".

And he quoted the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita that says: I am become death, Destroyer of the Worlds.

Yes, I believe we have become death, the Destroyer of the Worlds, a job in which no one is better.

[unhappycamper]

1. yes, but department of war's research budget was reduced

A few ex defense folks are whining about it in the NYTimes today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/opinion/13deutch.html

[KlatooBNikto]

3. Are we supposed to laugh or cry at this?

[unhappycamper]

4. anything that consumes over 20% of the national budget and kills

people needs to be rethought.

cry.

[whistle]

2. Yep, the U.S. WMD mass produced patented processes....

....monopoly of materials and intellectual property. Efficient killing guided from 12,500 miles away with the precision of a Mars rover landing and exploration. Cost, astronomical! Results spectacular in terms of body counts and destruction, marginal in terms of elimination of enemy resistance, but very effective in terms of digging deep into the pockets of the American tax payer.