General: U.S. dominance of skies may wane

Recent exercise against Indian pilots is ‘wake-up call’

"Hornburg said the exercise shows the need for some new Air Force fighters, particularly the F/A-22 Raptor, which is intended to replace the F-15C. But critics deride the aircraft as too expensive and built to counter a threat that hasn’t existed since the Soviet Union collapsed."

Now that GWB has spent beyond belief bringing "democracy" to Afghanistan and Iraq, they want fancier weapons to use against non-existent enemies.

(Considering the cost in lives and money, those two countries should be extremely democratic by now, don't you think? Women voting, and all that stuff that GWB finds very important.)

If anything, they need more A-10s, but watch 'em start scaring folks into buying F-22s. At the expense of about everything else, including space.

Arf