Aw, come on; you don’t think that wasn’t staged for effect…GD could use the sales… Boeing even has a hybrid F-15, with “fifth-generation” add-ons, known as the “Silent Eagle” (SE) that is being promoted for international customers’.
They also hold their own population hostage. You may have noticed that the U.S. destroyed the Iraqi military in about three weeks and could do the same thing to Iran. The issue is “then what?” If we walk out, there are political and diplomatic implications. It will also inflame militant Islamists, but so what? They are always inflamed about something. If the Allies had moved into the Ruhr in 1935 to enforce the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, there may have been political implications, and Germanists (including a good number of Jews) would have been inflamed? But so what? Better to have Hitler ranting in beer halls than invading half of Europe.