Obama has made various snarky and snide remarks. This one was pretty bad. And he’s allegedly such a brilliant mind and intellectual and all that.
The media is ignoring that comment. I can’t wait to see now the media reacts if Romney ever says anything sarcastic or makes any snide remarks.
If you believe that the U.S. needs to defend sea lanes to avoid depending on the good will of nations that would like to see us destroyed, then you need enough ships (forming credible task groups) to be in more than one place at any one time because, gee whiz, the bad guys might come from more than one direction, Mr. President. OTOH, if you believe that the U.S. must be forced to refrain from influencing any other nation, and in fact be subservient to others as punishment for our past colonial ways, then we should eliminate the Navy and be satisfied with a Coast Guard whose only job is to protect recreational boaters and help the Customs Service by interdicting those who otherwise bring products into the country without completing their forms for duties on imported goods.
This is not new news, and it did not take a 20 year Navy career to enable me to figure this out.