I believe that Rummy is excessively infatuated with high-tech bells and whistles and ignores the KISS principle.
I’d call you a luddite, but it doesn’t square with your constant agitating for the government to build big boondoogle, worthless, billion dollar, floating trains.
More Americans would travel on Maglev than on aircraft carriers.
And as part of our transportation infrastructure, Maglev would be of far greater benefit to domestic commerce.
Given our need for strong National Security, however, I also favor construction of naval vessels.
But here, Rummy is showing his spendthrift attitude with taxpayers dollars.
Given $10 billion to spend, there are two options:
Seeing that there is no other nation on the planet building anything to rival our current state of carrier technology, it is absolutely wasteful to go overboard on the high tech. Why settle for just 1 carrier when the same amount of money will buy 2?