Mach2number
dervish,
Why don't we just ground everything, no problems then. I would bet in hindsight that no military aircraft from day 1 even to the present would pass the current criteria.
Others more knowledgeable have answered this same question on other threads. The best answer is, and I paraphrase, what regulations do you think should now be waived? You may be correct about other military aircraft, but that just highlights that for seven years the MAA have been rewriting the regulations, when Hadden-Cave confirmed the problem was lack of implementation. If you keep looking at the final act, the seat cock up, you miss the worst failure of all. No safety case is indefensible.