Thank you for posting the other articles here. I am still a FReeper “newbie” and I didn’t realize that articles about this “outsourcing”/industrial-military complex version of a Monroe Doctrine violation had already been posted.
Among the consequences of this nightmare are IMHO:
1. A foreign power will get its foot into the door of our U.S. military.
2. U.S. taxpayers will be bailing out Airbus EADS (recall the insider trading scandal and how the stocks went south???) vis a vis a United States government contract.
As you can read on the other threads, a Boeing plane would have been dependent on Chinese communist parts. I personally trust the French and Germans slightly farther than I do the ChiComs.
And, for that matter, I’d rather encourage military spending in Republican states as opposed to military spending in heavily Democrat states.
That's already been accomplished by the likes of Hawker Siddeley, DeHavilland, Dassault, Aerospatiale, FN, H&K and Beretta.
Perhaps Boeing should have gotten off their laurels and come up with a competative alternative to Airbus’ instead of taking it for granted that Uncle Sucker would just keep writing them cheques just for being an American company....