Those who watch government carefully, or even casually, often find themselves wondering “What were they thinking?” Or whether they were. So take the F-35… please.
Now that the Liberals suddenly discovered they’re going to buy this thing after all, and their CF-18 stopgap purchase was fiscal and military folly, commentators are having fun throwing Trudeau’s indignant 2015 campaign rhetoric back at them. Not just his categorical “We will not buy the F-35 Fighter jet” but his sunny sneer that the Tories “were particularly, and some might say unreasonably or unhealthily, attached to the F-35 aircraft.”
From the people who brought you “Islamophobia” the psychological low blow is not surprising. What is surprising is how much of a conditioned reflex rather than an actual thought process it was. Part of the issue with the F-35 in Liberal minds, or somewhere more primitive in their nervous systems, seems to have been that it was American. So they accused the Conservatives of an “unhealthy” fixation on the United States.
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