This secondhand resale makes a strong argument for the selling of our SERVICES not our PRODUCTS. If we sold a 'Patriot Missle Defense Service' instead of the missles and training, our own troops would man the battle stations and controls and the US would still own them. When we release ownership to another entity we potentially put these things in our enemies' hands. Not good. The business model of government prime defense contractors making money must be reconsidered, regardless of how ruthless a free-market capitalist global economy we'd prefer to have globally--because much of the globe is NOT free-market capitalist but totalitarian expansionist Marxist/fascist, including China and the Nation of Islam--all with greedy and/or hateful eyes fixed for some reason upon US.
Defense from what? Spain already sold itself out to Al Queda and france-arabia.