I fail to see where the construction of a $600 million assembly plant and $144 million testing field (with a mile-long airstrip) constitutes the out-sourcing of American defense resources... we have the plant, the field and the means to construct the planes... all we would have to do is machine the parts that would be machined in France.
This also ignores the Harrier, you know. Or the fact that as much as 60% of EVERY single commercial Boeing jet airplane is actually manufactured overseas, and is only ASSEMBLED in the US plants located in Wichita and Seattle (and maybe St Louis, I'm not sure).
Like I said, this isn't a project that is depending on foreign supply of labor, technology or material that cannot be supplied from a domestic source... the foreign source is simply deemed beneficial for whatever reasons. Probably just money... the French don't know the meaning of "defense".
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