Re: China to buy Eurofighters?

Alan Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 06:11:46 -0600, "tscottme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>Scott Ferrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> In my opinion selling them top of the line stuff is the height of
>>> stupidity.  It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what the
>>> situation is going to be with China and the West in ten to fifteen
>>> years.
>>
>>What makes you think the Europeans don't want the next problem for the
>>US to be as bad as possible?  They have no hope of exceeding the US
>>unless a full-scale war devastates the US.  The fact that it helps
>>communists is a happy coincidence.
>
>Roger that. The europeans are hardly our "friends".
>
>Al Minyard

Sad as it is to contemplate very few countries are genuinely
friendly with others. Friendship is usually predicated on
usefulness and can be ruined rather quickly. 

I believe that communication is the key to increasing this
valuable commodity and I think that the internet plays a  part in
this. 

Now if we can just keep from killing each other long enough for
this and other communication avenues yet uninvented to take
effect we just might avoid ruining it all irretrievably with WMD.

I hope so anyway...or am I barking up an empty tree?...and are my
little grand-babies doomed to become small pools of flaming
smoking matter running off the edge of the concrete sidewalk near
their school?
--

-Gord.