Comments on: B-2 Stealth Bomber Crashes In Guam

Both Pilots Eject Safely; First B-2 To Be Lost

[inventagod]

''OOPS'' - DlCK CHENEY, from the bunker...

[Jim1900]

The $1.2 billion cost is large, but pales in comparison to the $2 trillion cost of invading the wrong country. It is not the hardware that is the problem, but the software of the people who command it.

[alphaa10-2009]

Link to a Paul Kennedy essay on the American empire, written back in 2003, just after the Iraq invasion.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0420-02.htm

[alphaa10-2009]

We are glad the crew are safe. But $1.2 billion augured into the ground is a bracing lesson in the prohibitive cost of a bomber fleet designed for WW3.

Perhaps the US and prospective adversaries can reach agreement never to build a full-scale conventional bomber wing. In the missile age, this is like a fleet of Spanish galleons. And at this cost, we never could afford such a bomber wing, anyway.

Historian Paul Kennedy wrote of the decline of empires, with sharp focus on their inevitable tendency to overextend. In retrospect, it is easy to see other empires folding when expeditures outran receipts, but try telling that to the hysterical wingnuts and fat Pentagon contractors.

The irony is these are the very people who jumped for joy when the Soviets went rhrough their own economic implosion for exactly the same reasons.