Senator Webb, with all due respect, pull your head out of your butt and look at a map.
How you became Secretary of the Navy under Reagan with you demonstrated lack of a clue about either military strategy or geography is a mystery to thinking people every where.
Johnnie, there is a little rule I like to call “Massa’s Law” that states as follows:
“Any man who changes party affiliation from Republican to Democratic will immediately forfeit all knowledge of foreign policy.”
(It’s named after MoveOn.org darling Eric Massa, a former Navy pilot turned surrender monkey who ran for Congress in my district in ‘06 as a “former Republican.”)