On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:22:09 -0500, "Kevin Brooks"
wrote:


The article notes that the US is concerned over giving Arrow, with its
greater range, to a nuclear nation that is involved in a current bout of
"missile diplomacy" with another nuclear armed state. Personally I can
understand our reluctance to contribute to, or even possibly contribute to,
any imbalancing of the delicate status quo that currently exists between
India and Pakistan. I'll bet that the US will in the end only sell Patriot
to India if they also allow Pakistan to buy it--it is in our interest to
maintain the staus quo, as we saw when we allowed pakistan to buy those
airborne radars to offset the Indian purchase of Phalcon from Israel.

You misinterpreted what I said, perhaps understandably.

I meant to say that, perhaps, the US should give a fair shot to
foreign suppliers for our own forces.

Also, I'm not talking about China. I'm talking about the side cases,
like the Philippines, Singapore, etc.

John