Where Are the Carriers?

By Geoffrey Norman

Published August 9, 2013 1:39pm ET

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Where Are the Carriers? — “When word of a crisis breaks out in Washington, it’s no accident that the first question that comes to everyone’s lips is: ‘Where’s the nearest carrier?'”(President Bill Clinton, March 12, 1993, aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt) Twenty years later, it appears that the answer to that question will soon be, “The carriers are in mothballs.” […]

“When word of a crisis breaks out in Washington, it’s no accident that
the first question that comes to everyone’s lips is: ‘Where’s the nearest carrier?'”
(President Bill Clinton, March 12, 1993, aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt)

Twenty years later, it appears that the answer to that question will soon be, “The carriers are in mothballs.” Rusting away. We can’t afford them any longer.”

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