keepthefaith Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) Blaming that on Obama ignores years of Air Force mismanagement. That's not limited to the F-22 - across the board, the Air Force lacks vision, discipline, coherent doctrine, overall direction, accountability, a clear understanding of mission, and meaningful political support, and that goes all the way back to 1992 (if not earlier). And all those issues the Air Farce has are already starting to evidence themselves in the B-21 Bomber program...which was only finally awarded three weeks ago! (There's already accusations of fraud floating around, they expect to use it to partially fund F-35 engine development, the Senate is already questioning the acquisition, they have a plethora of intended missions for it - meaning they have no defined mission for it, and costs are already increasing. But goddammit, they're going to have a stealthy batwing airframe!) The Air Force is quite simply !@#$ed up. Has been since they decided their 5-gen air superiority fighter had to be a fighter-bomber (after cancelling the fighter-bomber version of the same airframe.) That's not in any way Obama's fault. It's his fault for not correcting the past ills you pointed out. Come to think of it, what has Obama fixed in 7 years? He passed a crap health care bill, porkulus, increased some taxes, appointed 2 liberal lightweight SC judges, welcomed millions of illegal immigrants, ginned up racism and terrorism, and burned up millions of gallons of jet fuel while telling the world that climate change is the greatest threat we face. Well the 2nd greatest threat next to right wing radicals. Quite a legacy. Edited March 12, 2016 by keepthefaith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 It's his fault for not correcting the past ills you pointed out. Come to think of it, what has Obama fixed in 7 years? He passed a crap health care bill, porkulus, increased some taxes, appointed 2 liberal lightweight SC judges, welcomed millions of illegal immigrants, ginned up racism and terrorism, and burned up millions of gallons of jet fuel while telling the world that climate change is the greatest threat we face. Well the 2nd greatest threat next to right wing radicals. Quite a legacy. No, it actually isn't. The President - any President - can't be held at fault for being unable to correct an institution so navel-gazing and hidebound that their strategic master plan specifies five strategic vectors to support their five unspecified core missions that ultimately satisfy their strategic imperative of "inclusiveness." I am not making that up. The SMP has twelve pages - of sixty-five, nearly a fifth of the document - detailing the "inclusiveness" imperative. But I can't find a single damned statement concerning "mission." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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