DEFECTIONS HAVE BEGUN: Canada Rejects The Pricey F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

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3. This plane has two immutable problems

The first is it's designed to counter threats that don't exist and may never exist. The military did that during the Cold War, and sometimes it was good - we expected the Soviet 125mm tank round to be far more powerful than it is, so the armor on the M-1 Abrams defeats it easily. With the F-35, the threats it is made to counter may never emerge...or the ones that do could overwhelm the plane.

The other, is it's overkill for the threats we actually face: insurgents and terrorists. Every time America has been attacked since 1981, the attackers were terrorists who either rented a truck, stole one or hijacked an airplane. Or they mailed the weapon to a Democrat. You don't need a multibrazillion-dollar plane to defeat these guys.