Obama and the Bayonets: Who’s Right on the Defense Debate?

Date: Oct 25 2012

Filed under: Election 2012

NEW YORK - MAY 22: U.S. Navy sailors walk past the USS Iwo Jima docked on the Hudson River during Fleet Week May 22, 2009 in New York City. Fleet Week, which annually brings an array of warships to New York City's harbors on Memorial Day weekend, is being celebrated this year with the smallest flotilla of ships since the event began 22 years ago, as budgets have been hampered by the current economic crisis. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Monday’s debate between President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney was a bit of a yawn-fest, but it did feature one memorable exchange:

Romney: Our navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917.

Obama: [Romney mentions] the Navy, for example, and how we have fewer ships than we had in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have ships…

Obama and the Bayonets: Who’s Right on the Defense Debate? originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-10-24T13:28:00Z.

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