[M.D. Holloway]

Cool, careful about the mil machine funding - far more complex than many imagine. The AH-64 was formatable but true be known, MD's Long Bow would have suited the needs then and now much better if the original plans stuck (as would have the A10 which is another failed story). The Trident only made fiscal sense for Groton CT and Newport News VA, not much else. Fast attacks work better now that USSR is all but gone. The mil and aerospace funding questions that get brought to the floor have far reaching ramifacations for local and reagonal economies than you can imagine, but also the Sen knows the next programs being proposed, we, the public don't. In many, not all, they do the right thing for the right reasons. It is only years later that we marvel at the F117A, B2 and the F22/23. These allow you and me and all the others to be doing what we are doing right now!

Cool et al, don't put too much passion into a topic that is to be far more complex than your philosophies would ever dream.