Center for International Policy Think Tank says the F-35 can be killed or rolled back!

William D. Hartung is the director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy. He took the time to write an article for the Huffington Post that basically tracks with many of the things I've been saying. Check this out....

This is not to suggest that rolling back the F-35 will be easy, just that it is possible. There's no question that the Air Force brass are committed to the F-35 as the plane of the future, but that is not the case for the Navy -- in the short-term the service could do as well or better with upgraded F-18s while a workable alternative to the F-35 is developed. The A-10 attack plane is far better at close air support of troops than the F-35 will ever be, and there is a strong Congressional constituency in favor of keeping the A-10 over the objections of the Air Force. And as the price of the F-35 rises, there has been grumbling among allied nations involved in the program, with a number of them postponing or cutting their buys of the plane.

I hope you're paying attention to whats happening here.

First, Lockheed Martin, the Program Office and the DoD have lost control of the message with the F-35.  More and more Think Tanks are saying that the plane is a decent idea which has been executed poorly....and needs to be canned or drastically cut back.

More importantly they've identified that the US Navy is in SHOCK over the cost of the airplane and don't support it....And the reason for that shock is the thing that has me punching walls.  The plane is just too damn expensive and is ruining the budgets of not only the USMC but those of our allies as well.

Message control for the program has been lost.  More and more people are speaking out against the plane.  An alliance between Liberals, Deficit Hawks and people sincerely interested in preserving our nation's defense is finally starting to push back against this glowing example of Waste, Fraud and Abuse.

I couldn't be happier.