Brick,
Fair enough, but I can't see how an Airbus victory here resulting in a new production line in the US (read: lots of high wage, high skill jobs) could possibly be a bad thing given that Boeing have all the work they can handle with 787? Especially as this is a production line that will be turning out civilian A330Fs for the whole world (thereby being US exports and aiding the US balance of payments), and (sotto voce) if these Americans can show that they're lower cost for final assembly than western Europe (not unlikely), I suspect that they may get a slug more civilian work, too (cf the A320 line in China).
In this sense, it's just the same as a Toyota plant in the US. And they seem to do alright.
And then of course, there's the small point that the A330 MRTT is simply a better aircraft for the USAF, and that as with the AV-8A, the US forces have a record for overcoming "not made here syndrome" for something that works for them - even if it means building it Stateside. Long may it continue!
S41