06/22/2002 5:31:44 PM PDT
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to The Documentary Lady; Illbay
Neither party is a Western nation by any stretch of the imagination. Both sides are totally "black & white" in outlook. The whole "eye for an eye tooth for a tooth; tribe versus tribe" mentality is not really something we understand in our culture. There is no hope there. The only thing we accomplish by meddling over there is making ourselves a target. For payola the politicos will continue their madness of putting our lives at risk by ignoring George Washington's advice
Miller reported that the FBI said the photos taken by the Israelis showed them on top of van SMILING.
It was a pretty good spin job the segment trying to obfuscate the real espionage situation by focusing on this one aspect. Yet the attempted penetration of DEA and other Federal agencies at locations the public would never know about by "art students" never got any play by Disney owned and operated ABC.
06/22/2002 8:23:10 AM PDT
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to RCW2001; LarryLied
The irony, experts say, is that tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars and transfers of American military technology helped create and nurture Israel's industry, in effect subsidizing a foreign competitor.
No other country receives as much U.S. aid or freedom to plow it into its own export industries as Israel, say experts in academia, industry and the U.S. government.
"It's allowed them to advance faster than Lockheed or Boeing or Hughes would have liked," said David Lewis, a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University who has researched Israel's defense industry for a forthcoming book.
"It's a new concept for most people." said Joel Johnson, a vice president at the Aerospace Industries Association of America, which represents many of the largest U.S. arms producers. "We give them money to build stuff for themselves and the U.S. taxpayer gets nothing in return."