The Sailors are OK

I may be worried that the Navy can't seem to maintain sufficient numbers for a global role, but at least the sailors are of high quality.

Says Strategypage, "While the navy keeps having a difficult time designing and building new ships that it can afford, and do what they are supposed to, the quality of its sailors have never been higher."

Our sailors are the foundation for anything that sails. So we've got that going for us.

Of course, even with reduced numbers, the ships and planes themselves are not OK. This is disturbing: "Currently, about 20 percent of navy ships have failed readiness inspections or are unfit for combat. About 40 percent of ships at sea have one major system broken. About half of combat aircraft and helicopters at sea are not fully functional."

Not to worry, right? So what if our ships aren't ready to fight at full effectiveness? That "smart diplomacy" we are blessed with now will prevent any war in the first place, right? I mean, who could blame foreigners for wanting to attack George W. Bush's America? But now we are in the new and improved (now with hope and change!) Obama's America.