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.