Note to Self: If You Pay Someone to Buy Something, They Generally Buy It

Which is why, to no one's surprise, the Dutch have decided that the JSF best suits their needs.

You'd have to be an idiot to not know that it was a done deal. After as Bill Sweetman notes, the Dutch were using PowerPoint slides lifted directly from Lockheed-Martin as a part of their evaluation.

The good Mr. Sweetman also notes that there were numerous errors int he comparison, and they all cut in favor of the JSF.

When one looks at the industrial offsets to Holland, it's pretty clear that there is more money flowing in than flowing out.

As such, it would have been insane to expect any other result.