Originally Posted by
Rananim
This decision to outsource so much of the plane(and design!) has clearly backfired... etc.
It has clearly not.
If you wrote this post from a computer of some sort, you're using technology built largely outside the USA. Just because it was built elsewhere hardly means it was a bad decision. Obviously bad decisions were made, but it's not necessarily true, at all, that these Japanese batteries are themselves at fault.
The xenophobia is disturbing, and hypocritical.