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abilities of the US Secretary for Defence:    One problem for
the USA is that she can spend billions developing a new weapon,
with every chance that the Chinese will soon have a good copy of
it involving much less expenditure.  Ploughshares, Duffers, not
shears.  One problem of discussing anything to do with American
defence policy (and almost anything to do with politics,
anywhere) is knowing what the devil to believe of what we are
told. Try reading this fascinating article about the Cuban
missile crisis to see what I mean.  Time for a rethink. The US
can see a way to energy security - so the Middle East can go
hang and become Europe's problem. Europe is likely to see
relative economic decline over the next 30 years, the big
markets are in Asia. America dominates s