And it's effects on "National Security" are old news; We already had issues with it during the first Gulf War.

It doesn't help that most B-Schools seem to teach (beleive?) that all manufactuing workers should be seen as interchangable monkeys, so the path to profits is to replace them with low wage (Undocumeted Immigrant?) Monkeys.

Get rid of those pesky unioized machinists/mechanics etc, and the coporation can pocket the difference. Anyone remember Value Jet?

Recomended: the Sociology literature on Numerically Controlled Machine Tools.

Also, the Monkey factor- "You Pay Peanuts, You Get Monkeys."