"So what this points out is that these types of oil disasters are not only posing risks to marine life and to fisheries and to the economy of coastal communities."

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

His comments reflected what other officials have said that ending the F-22 program is just one part of the effort to shift the focus of U.S.defenses away from what they see as the relatively remote possibility of a war with a major power and toward the types of smaller-scale conflicts of recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21