Why you don't have an Obama Admin job, Merrill

Yep, a frequent flier on the Wall of Shame has decided that he wants to write ligit stuff.

Haruph. You stick to the moonbat stuff - 'cause this is just FOD.

The future air combat capabilities we should build are based on the F-22, a stealthy, fast, maneuverable fighter that is unmatched by any known or projected combat aircraft. But the F-22’s production run may soon come to an end at just 187 planes, well short of establishing the fleet size we need. After all, it’s expensive, and getting more so as the number contemplated has been repeatedly reduced. In an argument they seem to think makes sense, critics say the aircraft has no worthy opponent—as if we want to create forces that do have peer competitors.

It’s been more than half a century since any American soldier or Marine has been killed, or even wounded, by hostile aircraft, a period roughly coincident with the existence of the Air Force as a separate service. Even during the Korean War—the Air Force’s first engagement wearing new, blue uniforms—enemy air attack was primitive and rare. The main air battle was fought along the Yalu River, just as in Vietnam it was fought over Hanoi, and in Desert Storm, over Baghdad. Our guys on the ground had hard work to do, but when they looked up, they saw only friendly skies.

For the life of me, I can’t understand why we should wish to change this.

I don't have enough time to fully fisk Merrill McPeak's latest, so let me just stomp this low hanging fruit.

1. You refused to engage in contributing ideas to win the war we are in, so you instead want to talk about the war you want.

2. You don't do well without a staff or fact checker. 50 years is 1959. What about the US service members killed by SRMB in Gulf War I? Air superiority isn't worth squat if death comes from a S/M/ICMB. Nice choice of services in your paragraph .... but how about the Sailors from USS Liberty in 1967? How about our proxies at the Bay of Pigs in 1961? Ok, that is a stretch.

Let's instead talk about air superiority. How about what North Vietnam did to our airmen for the balance of the Vietnam War until we remembered that technology wasn't as important as proper fighting skills in the air?

Look at how many aces North Vietnam had.

That in itself tells you there is no other reason to read what Merrill is selling because, as we saw in the last two elections - he is a hack. A standard issue USAF-centric hack that is incapable of looking at anything objectively --- or even acknowledging all the pertinent facts.

Oh, I like the F-22 ---- but right now I would like to be able to project power and support the personnel on the ground doing the fighting in the war we have. Only so much money to go around. What would you ask your buddies in the Democrat party to give up to buy those F-22? What?

Hat tip Jim.

Sestak the gun grabber

Like you need another reason not to support Rep. (nee RADM) Joe Sestak (D-PA).

Two days after announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-7, of Edgmont, urged his colleagues in the Legislature to reinstate an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.

In a release Thursday, Sestak pointed to an Aug. 4 shooting in Allegheny County, where George Sodini, 48, of Scott Township, used two 9 mm semi-automatics and a .45-caliber revolver to kill three women and wound nine others in an aerobics class before taking his own life.

“As we continue to see the effects of the violence in our state and nation, we must enact legislation banning assault weapons with the necessary sense of urgency,” said Sestak. “The senseless shootings of so many innocent victims during an aerobics class in Allegheny County, and of the three police officers in Pittsburgh this past April, are heartbreaking reminders that we must immediately address the loss of the common-sense ban earlier this decade.”

...ummmm, should someone, maybe The Armorer, tell the good Rep. that none of the weapons used in gym shooting were .... "assault weapons"?

Hat tip JM.

We are all Kenyan now ...

Snerk.

Phibian on a Congressional Staff?!?

How would you know? Well, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-MS) might have the following in his prepared statements,

The LCS program is still a disaster, there is no way to sugar coat it, the program is still a disaster. Those first vessels were constructed in the most inefficient manner possible, just like my house construction analogy, and now we are being told by both the contractors that the cost of these ships really is in excess of a half a billion dollars. I am not sure the Congress is willing to go forward with that program unless significant progress is made on cost control, and I do mean significant.

Wait, it is.

Of course, the people responsible have been ...... promoted. Move along, move along ..... and don't worry, no one pays well enough to have me work on their staff.

Check in tomorrow when we have some fun with NAVSEA.

Sunday Funnies

Adds you won't see in the USA

NSFW, NSFK (Not Safe for Kristin).

Seriously, even the screen shot is iffy. I only add this to show that you need to be careful when you turn on European cable in the hotel room with kids around.

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And ... let's let the Europeans have their adds.

But there is more killing to be done ...

I will be a good thing if this girly-boy terrorist is dead.

Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mahsud, Pakistan's most wanted terrorist and a staunch Al Qaeda ally, was killed in an American missile strike, a Pakistani government minister confirmed today, dealing a severe blow to militants who have been the architects of some of Pakistan's worst terrorist attacks in recent years.

But this isn't a silver bullet.

There are a lot more people to kill. Take the win here --- but the game has many more turns.

Tack into the wind and pull your oilskins closer -- the storm is still raging.