Quantity Versus Quality

Just a reminder:

An F-22A Raptor costs the Pentagon about $350 Million each.

A Chinese F-7PG (developed from the MiG-21, but with a newer engine, newer wing design, and up-to-date radar, avionics and missiles) only costs our potential geopolitical adversaries $17 Million each. (Yes, that is 20 to 1 odds!) Surface-to-Air missiles capable of catching a Raptor aircraft at altitude are even cheaper.

Wars are coming, but I doubt our nation will ever find a cause that will adequately justify the costs we will need to spend. Which bankruptcy will hit us first?--Fiscal or Moral?

FP

THX 1138--When and Now

Just watched the DVD. Even with the Lucasfilm intermeddling, it's still the film I remember it being. The CGI backgrounding and embellishing isn't anywhere near as heavy-handed as it was in the re-do's of Star Wars IV~VI. Parts that had been sardonically humorous the first time I watched have become rather chilling now.

Now I have to get Koyaanisqatsi and Brazil to complete the circle of dystopian cyberfilm.

FP