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Pentagon Advisors Slam U.S. Protectionist Policies 

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By Sandra I. Erwin and Grace V. Jean 

One of the Pentagon’s most influential advisory panels, the Defense Science Board, blasted the administration for its “isolationist and protectionist” policies. “U.S. policy continues to inhibit the nation from gaining the security and economic benefits that could be realized from the global marketplace by instead focusing on ‘Buy American,’” said the DSB report titled “Creating an Effective National Security Industrial Base for the 21st Century.”

The panel also denounced “obsolete international traffic in arms regulations and export controls, restrictions on foreign scholars, students and scientists, all of which limit flexibility in acquisition options and cost savings.”
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Re: Pentagon Advisors Slam U.S. Protectionist Policies

There is no security and economic benefits to be realised from globalisation. The infiltrators and corrupt corporations from India and China were behind the GATT 2004 round where the quota system was removed.

And our foolish administration (probably corrupt) removed quotas and so today the business of more than 150 countries have transferred to the manipulators India and china. Not just that, these two have also become powerful and are today standing up to the United States with their corrupt elements totally infiltrated into Washington. One wonders what the CIA and the Pentagon are doing about this...they need to concentrate on outside infiltration and econonomic destruction of the US too. The time is not far when indid and china come together to plot the destruction of the US.

US needs to protect its industries and economy and needs to enlist the support of Canada and other European nations including Russia. This is the only way to put India and China in their place and for the US to retain its power and prestige in the world.

suresh patil on 02/02/2009 at 18:34

Re: Pentagon Advisors Slam U.S. Protectionist Policies

Armor plate is a perfect example. We have protected 3 US Armor Mfg plants who are owned by the Russians, India owned and Canadian owned steel mills. Like they don't own fax machines to send the secret recipe? Berry amendment came too late last fall as dollar was weak and demand for armor in Europe forced them to sell at higher priced markets keeping our armor plate 1.50 per lb higher than it was in 2002. Last I checked, our defense industry consumed 50,000 tons annually of this at minimum premium price paid of of 1000$ per ton. 500 million$ per yr the US tax payers paid for buying American ( I mean Russian, Indian and Canadian)

John on 09/30/2008 at 02:14

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