Originally Posted by
Riddler
But in all seriousness, Sec Gates isn't stupid, and this isn't about Obama being the mother of all sleeper cells and destroying our country from within (wow, that's an awesome conspiracy. I better copyright that before Rush Limbaugh gets a hold of it). Right now, 180-ish F-22s is more than sufficient to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. We don't have enough UAVs for the current mission. So how about we focus on winning our current war before we get too wrapped around the axle about WW III with RussIranKoreaStan.
Maybe in a few years we'll revisit the F-22.
Hey what happened to the first half of my post?!!! This is a conspiracy! Anyways, I started writing this trying to reassure everyone that the military has to spend its money wisely and get the most bang for its buck... but then I remembered all those times flying across the pond empty... and flying 8 Hum-vees to Afghanistan only to pick up 8 and bring them back to the states (god knows the 82nd Airborne can't sign a hand receipt and use the 101st Hum-vees for a few months)... and I remembered just about every squadron I've ever been in runs out of toilet paper and paperclip money in September but somehow finds "different colored" money to buy 5 flat screen plasma TVs that do nothing but show a power point presentation from last month's commanders call... and I realized that the military isn't all that smart after all.
And on a somewhat different note - if it really takes 90,000 people to build an F-22, then maybe we're getting ripped off anyways.
Maybe we need to cancel the F-22 to fund CyberCommand. They'll win all wars for us.