65,000 defects there may have been, but I wouldn't class an inspection overflown by a day or a mechanic with a stray NAS screw in his toolbox in the same league as departing with a failed or mis-rigged flight control. We are pretty good at preventing one but people will still point to the other as a problem. Neither is acceptable of course but there is a difference in the magnitude of risk they present.
It's sloppy too, to point the finger at "foreign" repair stations. If the BEA report on the Concorde crash is correct there is no room for sitting back and suggesting the problem lies abroad - whatever the cost of foreign repair stations that may lead some to question their standards.
The same standards apply to all of us and there is no room for protectionism.