James Fallows is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever have occasion to interact with, and he’s got all that niceness on display in this post brushing back on his colleague Mark Bowden’s F-22 boosterism in the pages of the Atlantic.

Fallows’ 2002 article “Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane” is a must-read tale of defense aviation follies.

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