“Our Navy can carry twice as many aircraft at sea as all the rest of the world combined,” outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pointed out last year.

Really? Then why does...

..."the U.S. Navy [spend] an average of $15 billion a year on new airplanes"

???

I know we need some planes to patrol the quagmire in the desert, but aren't there about 15 better ways to spend a billion dollars a year (or, not spend, as we seem wont to do)?

-janelane