Don't cut F-35 II production

F-35 Lightning II

In the most recent National Review, Victor Davis Hanson comments, "The United States has an alarming record of courting danger when it has slashsed defense, or even merely been perceieved abroad as pruning its military." When we bolster our defense, as we did under Ronald Reagan, good things happen--such as the collapse of the Soviet Union.

President Obama's deficit commission has suggested drastically cutting back production of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II the world's only fifth generation multirole fighter. It's an amazing plane, and yes, an expensive one. But it's relatively cheap when compared to the cost of warfare between nation-states.

Let's not prune F-35 II production. Those jets will be manufactured here and of course that means more American jobs.

The F-35 is one project that can't be outsourced to China.

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