Hey, let’s stop building subs too!

And now, a brief discussion on something that most of you aren’t even paying any attention to.

Recently, the Senate voted to stop funding for the purchase of any more F-22 fighter jets. Apparently, President Obama, SecDef Gates, the Pentagon and a bunch of other “really smart” people decided that we’re not going to need any more of these jets. Suddenly, in a temporary moment of “fiscal responsibility” they all want to save $1.75 billion and not purchase any more planes. One of the excuses that they are using is that since the F-22 “has not been used in Iraq or Afghanistan” it’s a weapon system that has outlived its usefulness.

So, uh, based upon this reasoning, should we stop building submarines? I mean, I’m pretty sure that we haven’t used any subs in Afghanistan, since it’s a completely land locked country. What about antimissile weapon systems? Or what about nuclear bombs, ICBMs, destroyers, cruisers and all of the other major weapons that we haven’t been able to “use” over the last 8 years? Should we scrap all of these weapon systems as well?

I mean, really, what a bunch of idiots.

It is said that the F-22 is the most advanced air to air superiority fighter ever built in the world. Period. The F-22 is so good, that it kicks our own planes asses every time. They’ve actually run war games where they completely stack the deck against the F-22, 10 to 1 odds, come up with crazy rules of engagement that would never happen in reality, and the F-22 has crushed the best that we can throw at it. It is so good, that in the war games, only one F-22 was ever “lost”, and that’s because the other plane ran away outside of the war game, snuck back in and “killed” the F-22.

The F-22 is so advanced, that we won’t even sell it to Japan or Israeli. Hello? We sell Israeli everything, but we’re not going to sell them this, because it would tip the balance of power in the Middle East. If Israeli had these planes, they could bomb Iran, and we might not be able to stop them. The planes are that good.

And what about that whole fiscal responsibility thing? Here’s what the Wall Street Journal has to say about that :

“Credit $1.75 billion in savings, or a third of a percentage point of the overall 2010 defense request. Only a couple of trillion more, and Mr. Obama will have a balanced budget.”

It is said that air superiority is what helped us win WWII. It’s also allowed us to operate at will in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, it’s said that you’re always fighting the last war. Hopefully, when the next war comes around, our enemies will be helpful enough and not try to challenge us for control of the sky.