>>Of course, these older outsourcers required a lot of military protection for this to work - and it may be even worse now, with the US highly unpopular many places.
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>One of the things many outsourcing proponents forget is that India and Pakistan would like nothing better than to wipe each other off the map. Pretty hard to rely on an offshore support department that's just been vaporized...

I figure that China will take the work from them before vapourization occurs.

In the past "good ol American know how" could be relied on to create other fields for displaced labour. I wonder, though, just what it is that comes after 'the information (knowledge based) ecomony'??? And how many people can be gainfully employed inventing things when those inventions are ALL going to be produced off shore???

Jim