Originally Posted by
Seran
That was all that was available at the time. They approached the United States some six month's ago according to reports about acquiring better models and our country paired with the United Kingdom to come up with this deal. Australians are swearing up and down the French were made aware of the deal. Where our national security interests are at stake, I too could care less about the hurt feels.
Pretty unfortunate. Add that to the other 71,000 civilian causalities of the war, also unfortunate. An unavoidable cost of conflict, fortunately the middle east can go stew in it's own juices for a while. America just peaced out. Not gonna lose any sleep over it either.