The Sydney Morning Herald offered a pretty shocking statistic the other day on the Australian government’s plans to buy 100 Joint Strike Fighters to replace an aging fleet of F-111s and F/A-18s. “At a cost of more than $1000 for every Australian man, woman and child, the program to buy the aircraft–and maintain regional air superiority–is the most expensive project ever undertaken by the Federal Government,” said Tom Allard, the paper’s national security editor. The next day, that paper ran this snarky opinion piece, which parodies a discussion between the Australian minister for defense, Brendan Nelson, and Angus Houston, the chief of the defense force.