Our government is always ready to save the jobs of foreign nationals.
Absolutely nuts that we are sending important military equipment jobs overseas. We are a few years away from getting more nutty America haters running France and Germany....they could easily find another Chirac or Schroeder.
So much for our national security
I understand the sentiment angle (jobs going overseas ....although half of the production will be done here; national defense being uprooted, although a lot of facts get smudged, etc). My question, however, is on the capability angle. The Boeing offer was less capable (the airbus version can carry 20% more fuel for instance), and it was wracked with criminal acts by the protagonists. Thus, while an issue (and an important one) can be made on the job and NatDef issue, the fact still remains that Boeing got beat fair and square.