>Sure, $6 billion looks like a lot of money. But it's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the Carrier Battle Group. You need a lot of ships to properly

>Sure, $6 billion looks like a lot of money. But it's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the Carrier Battle Group. You need a lot of ships to properly protect a carrier. You also need a lot of ships to protect all the countries that cry about their neighbors invading them, human rights atrocities and other "emergencies" that take our military all over the world to protect other countries that are fully capable of doing it themselves, but prefer to put our military in harm's way instead.