First off, why? Secondly how are we paying for something that no one else thinks we need? This sounded to me like some phoney talking point Cain threw out there to sound intelligent on the subject.
What do you want to do, reduce our military? I would guess that some of it would get paid for this way.
More from Cain:
I would do an across-the-board cut of 10 percent of every agency, except for Defense. I would review that to see if we’ve got the right priorities. Then each of my new Cabinet heads, I would then ask them to find another 10 percent by doing a deep dive. You have to go into each department and find programs that are outdated, obsolete, a conflict with some of our other programs. Once we do that, some departments may be totally gone. But I don’t want to make that judgment without looking down in the belly of each one of these.”
He said he expects his administration would cut costs by at least 20 percent in his first year “because we’re going to go at it the same way a businessman would go about cutting costs.”
“Let’s put every program on the table,” Cain said. “What are the cost-benefits of this program? If those cost-benefits do not justify themselves, it is gone.”
If elected president, Cain also said he would “bring about an attitude adjustment with the United Nations,” refusing to compromise the nation’s sovereignty under any circumstances. He would also work on legislation to “throw out the tax code” and pass his 9-9-9 plan.
“A Herman Cain presidency would first restore pride in being part of the greatest nation in the world,” he said. “A Herman Cain presidency would put ‘united’ back in United States of America. … I will never be one to apologize for the greatness of this country.”
Aegis provides a sea-based defense shield. Maybe he has IRAN on his mind.
Iran's attempt to get nukes and missiles to delver them.
So what do we do? Invade a 4th country? Ignore it? Start a covert war with Iran? Help the Gulf Arabs and the Israelis get nukes too?
OR Do we make forceful clear statesmen, as Cain would, that any attack on Israel will be viewed as an attack on the USA. Then we do as Cains says an build up our system of naval warships (i.e the Aegis ships Cain is talking about) that have the ability to knock down any Iranian missiles in flight thus giving our side an ability to neutralize the Iranian threat and protect our interests, without starting yet another war or future destabilizing the region.
Cain is the only one who looked at the real problem with Iran and said “here are the solutions”.