[JoeFromSidney]

I was on active duty when Robert McNamara forced the F-111 (TFX) in both the Air Force and the Navy. It didn't serve either one well. It was never carrier-capable, and could survive only in a permissive air environment.

I was a student at the Air War College when one of McNamara's Whiz Kids was the speaker. I challenged him on his assertion that the FB-111 would adequately replace the B-52. He couldn't really respond because he knew I was right.

Don't we ever learn? Why do we have to repeat the same mistakes every generation?

[okie01]

Don't we ever learn? Why do we have to repeat the same mistakes every generation?

Because we keep electing liberals -- for whom, history is a useless abstraction.