en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/721943 Comments by VinceOnTheCoast http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/11/25/us-less-dominant-but-so-what/#IDComment45061918 I can almost see Ms. Frees marching in place beside her desk. She ignores the fact we have lost much of our defense industrial base. The Arsenal of Democracy can't provide us with surge capacity if we need it in the future. Go shopping on the world market for war materiel if there's a major confrontation? Please. She notes foreign students are clamoring for a U.S. education. What she chooses to ignore is the unplesant fact that foreign students--especially from China--are stealing us blind in terms of taxpayer-funded research data. We're paying billions to these universities for dual-use technology R&D and it is being copied by the terabyte by foreign grad students in exhange for tuition dollars and slave-labor lab work. Little wonder the Chinese have been able to ramp up so fast. Little wonder we are "losing" our technology edge. We are giving away our technology edge as fast as their agents, I mean students, can download it. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:25:35 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/11/25/us-less-dominant-but-so-what/#IDComment45061918