Outsourcing our safety

Now I'm not one of those folks that automatically assumes everything outsourced to a foreign country is inferior. However, when it comes to airline safety, it would seem that the folks charged with protecting us, the FAA, should have ready access to those maintaining our planes. However, as the Today Show discussed this morning, airlines outsourcing of plane maintenance abroad makes FAA inspectors virtually powerless to adequately inspect these planes and ensure that proper maintenance practices and procedures occur. Here's a brilliant idea, how about taking the few trillion we've spent on the 6 year war in Iraq, a war that has cost the lives of tens of thousands, and spend a fraction of that money to protect the lives of millions in the traveling public. Radical idea huh?