Whoever they buy from it is money flushed down the toilet. With a trillion dollar budget deficit we are buying the planes for Karzai’s Afghanistan, who said recently that in a war between Pakistan and the US, Afghanistan would side with the Pakistan (who’s ISI supported the Taliban that hosted Al Qaeda). Afghanistan within it’s present borders was created to serve as a buffer state between British India and Czarist Russia, an obsolete function. We would better served by allowing Afghanistan to breakup along racial and linguistic lines, the breakup would be bloody and messy, but it would not be our blood. Fighting over the merits of either plane is just arguing over the most efficient way of doing something that it makes no sense to do.
go back and look at one of my first posts, where I said we were probably going to give the dang things away