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Others say Grounding the F-22

Posted: July 29, 2009 at 2:31 a.m.

SO THIS is all it takes for some responsible spending of the billions of dollars devoted to our nation's defense: The secretary of defense, Robert Gates, must conduct an unprecedented lobbying effort to remove funding for the F-22 stealth fighter, because the U.S. isn't using the 187 it has and probably won't for a long time, if ever.

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Editorial, Pages 16 on 07/29/2009

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