[AF] It's ALL posturing and spin

[Jeff Johnson]

It all comes down to how things turn out and who is making the 
consideration. The best pithy comment I heard during the recent election 
cycle was: "Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor."

I spent two days recently at the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB, 
Dayton. There are examples of everything from a MIG 15, a B17, through a 
B36, 'Bock's Car' the B29 that dropped the Fat Man on Nagasaki to the first 
707 'Air Force One', SAM26000. Sam26000 took JFK to Dallas and RMN to Beijing.

It represents not only aeronautical history but political history. Among 
our closest allies now are now Japan, Germany and, yes by common interest 
if not politics, China.

All of those fabulous hunks of metal sitting there represent pride and 
ambition. Some represent shame, and some represent glory depending how you 
look at them and who is talking.

There was a large group of Japanese tourists walking past the Bock's Car 
when I was there. What were they thinking? Glory or shame? ... and for who?

Jeff.Johnson at rfproof.com