Talking Ourselves Into Failure |
There are a couple of stories that seem unrelated but are very related. They show the story of a country that used to build things and has decided, without ever quite admitting it, that building is too hard.
Start with the missiles. Rep. Mike Turner was on television last week talking about letting Ukraine license our Patriot technology and build the missiles themselves, because the threat is spreading and our defenses must spread with it. He is right. Think how strange that is. The most powerful country in history is handing another nation the recipe for our best defensive weapon because we cannot make ourselves enough. It is outsourcing American security because our industrial base cannot keep up.
Here is what ought to keep you up at night: Ukraine is at war, bombed every single night, and it is out-producing us on drones. We have about 100,000 drones in our arsenal. They build them by the hundreds of thousands a month. A nation bombed daily is out-building the nation nobody is touching. That........