Ryan: ‘I just don’t understand’ bayonet remark
You know why we have a navy smaller than it was during WW1? Because we defeated every super power out there since with a little help from our friends. We defeated, the Imperial Japanese, Germany (twice), Fascist Italy, the USSR.
All that’s left are Somali pirate on zodiacs and they can’t be attacked using big ships designed to fight WW3.
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October 23, 2012 8:34 AM
Ryan: “I just don’t understand” bayonet remark
(CBS News) Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan defended his running mate’s positions following Monday’s third and final presidential debate and took aim at the president for comparing Mitt Romney’s military budget strategy to the game “Battleship.”
“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916,” Mr. Obama said in response to Romney’s critique of the administration’s military spending. “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed.
“The question is not a game of Battleship, where we’re counting ships,” he added.
Appearing on “CBS This Morning,” Ryan suggested the president was being petty: “To compare modern American battleships and Navy with bayonets - I just don’t understand that comparison.“Look. We have to have a strong Navy to keep peace and prosperity and sea lanes open,” he continued. “The president’s, all these defense cuts, if all these defense cuts go through, our Navy will be smaller than it was before World War I. That’s not acceptable. And, yes, the … the ocean hasn’t shrunk. You still have to have enough ships to have a footprint that you need to keep sea lanes open, to keep our strength abroad where it needs to be.”
“CBS This Morning” host Norah O’Donnell asked Ryan about the ways in which Gov. Romney “seemed to be bending over backwards to agree with the president,” saying he concurred with Mr. Obama on specific policies. “Why did he fail to draw some of the distinctions tonight?” she asked.
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