On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:03:02 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 3/27/20 10:58 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/27/2020 10:28 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/27/20 10:10 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


It didn't take a Chinese hyper-sonic cruise missile
to put a US aircraft carrier out of commission.

All it took was a virus.


Does it matter? We should scrap at least half the navy and stop
wasting money on big new ships.


It does cause one to realize how vulnerable we may be everywhere
to biological warfare.





We're not about to get into a shooting war with a nuclear power and the
terrorists around the world aren't stymied by their comrades being
killed en masse, so what's the point? These ships are vulnerable.

Better we should build more hospital ships and dispatch them where
needed around the world. We'd be spending far less and building good will.

"Good Will" doesn't seem to really buy us much. Those people still
screw us over the first chance they get, usually while we are still
giving them things. Afghanistan would be a good example. Aid workers
are in as much danger as soldiers, maybe more because they are more
vulnerable. A hospital ship in a country like that is nothing but a
big white target with a red bullseye on every flat surface.