caraher
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Wed Feb-13-08 10:51 PM
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25. Note that I'm not simply trusting what an admiral says |
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I certainly agree that the Navy doesn't automatically tell us the truth. What makes the Navy account credible is not so much the source as the well-known capabilities of aircraft carrier battle groups and Russian bombers.
At any rate, there's nothing special about overflying a ship in this era. Were the Russians to attack an aircraft carrier their planes would fire antiship missiles from many, many miles away. If our ships are vulnerable now then they were always vulnerable, and this overflight changes nothing.
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