[sukhoi-30mki]

Star-Telegram archives/Rodger Mallison

An F-16 bound for Pakistan is revealed at a ceremony in Fort Worth in 2009. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week struck a deal with Sen. John Cornyn by agreeing to review Taiwan's requests to buy 66 new F-16s.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Thanks to some political horse-trading by Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Lockheed Martin should finally get a decision from the Obama administration later this year about selling F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan.

It'll take him that long to check if it's OK with our creditors in the PRC?