“Are you inferring that naval fuel is being set aside for some anticipated emergency?”
No, what I am saying is that budgetary constraints have translated into not enough diesel for training cruises for future Navy and Marine Corps officers.
It seems to me that using Navy funds for 34 warships to secure the area for a presidential entourage of 3000 on a trip to India and Indonesia might not be the best way to spend the Navy’s limited money when we are already fighting a two-front war.
What is the reason for this trip, anyway?
Ah, good point. Could be.
And no, I have no idea what the trip is about. I work with state government, sort of, and I told my boss about this. He put forward the theory that it was a natural evolution of planning some kind of international economic cooperation plan that would help stimulate our economy. Hence the hundreds of executives (and all their support systems and personnel), as they would be the key “bridge-builders” for a new level of business cooperation between the US and India. Nice theory, but so out of character for the Shellacked One I can’t quite picture it as true.
This is Obama, returning to his home country of Indonesia to show off his new power and status.
This is fricking obscene.
We have people working there fingers to the bone to pay for this mans glorious return to his home country of Indonesia.
This is the most disgusting scene. Its beyond belief.
This reminds me of Caligula. The man is insane. Drunk with power.