If we're going to bomb Iran, it's a long time off in the future, and we're certainly not going to use nuclear weapons to do it.
Having already gone through a bad aircraft choice once, the Army wants to make absolutely certain that this time it picks the right aircraft.
This is an interesting twist on an argument that the Air Force has been pursuing for some time on the need to cut its purchases of Joint Strike Fighters. The Air Force has settled on a number of about 1,100.
This is very good news for Boeing at a time when its space operations seemed to be faltering.
It's time for the administration to do a fundamental reassessment of what it is that we are willing to do in order to stabilize Iraq. The United States needs to draw a line in terms of how deep it is willing to be drawn into Iraqi domestic politics.