At 07:48 PM 3/12/2004 +0000 Richard Baker wrote:
>> I never said, by the way, that I favored tariffs or trade restrictions
>> except in consideration of environmental factors and labor practices.
>
>How about to preserve strategically important industries in the US?
>Wouldn't it, for example, be embarrassing to one day go to war with
>China only to find that the Chinese produce all the bullets for US
>rifles or something like that?
Only if the US and all of its allies forgets how to produce those bullets.
JDG
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