Many times politics and ecomomics decide more on a battle rifle than actual performance.If a government has a choice of battle rifles and are given free of charge or much cheaper one choice over another then that can be the deciding factor. Miltary equipment like many other items are often used to barter.

"We are building a dictatorship of relativism which recoqnizes nothing as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of ones own self ego and desires."Cardinal Rathzinger