Fellow Illini alumn Michael Fumento delivers a pithy defense of the F-22 Raptor combat aircraft in theĀ Defense News this week.
The Russia bear has awakened from hibernation to rebuild its lost empire. China continues its inexorable military expansion. Iran desperately wants The Bomb, while North Korea revels in unpredictability. Yes, Virginia, we really do have potential enemies with weapons other than AKs and IEDs. We desperately need far more F-22 Raptors ā preferably to prevent wars but if need be to win them.
FumentoĀ is a veteran and has reported extensively from Iraq the last few years.Ā I never thought I’d see him agree with Teddy Kennedy, well, you’ll have to read it for yourself.
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