Since you mention Sen. Joe, Brother Biden gets my "fool of the week" award for the Sunday shows. Yes his initial comments were conciliatory, but then he came back with (close as my notes allow) it was "ridiculous to pretend dealing with an English company is the same as dealing with a company from the Middle East. We do not sell the same planes to Saudi Arabia that we sell to England, or France, or other NATO countries."
The British air industry is probably surprised we sell them very much at all, and the French must be positively shocked to discover they are not only buying American warplanes, but have rejoined NATO. And by the way Joe, we have been selling F-16s to Dubai for several years.