Those whose jobs depend on maintaining, "The military/industrial/congressional complex."

[nilesobek]

58. You just aren't very well informed.

Von Braun was a nazi "immigrant," brought over specifically for rocket making. His contribution to the Holocaust was overlooked. The wiki you posted is informative but does not address the fact that we are unable to reverse engineer the Saturn 5. We are spending over half of our GNP on the military and its turning America into a third world nation. On your conventional warfare point I would concede, but only tentatively, because our forces are spread way too thin. Even if we could conquer Russia proper we would never be able to effectively occupy it. Its all hypothetical though as Russia would nuke us immediately if we dared to attack them or violate their borders. It will be proxy wars and continual bleeding of the taxpayer to make contractors rich and they cannot even deliver the goods, like the F-35.