Battleships

Jim Inhofe On North Korea:

I know what you all were thinking. You were thinking, “You know, exactly what this very weird international kabuki crisis on the Korean Peninsula needs right about now is the calm, reasoned voice of Senator Jim Inhofe.”

“We should be prepared to do it right now,” Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Newsmax TV’s The Steve Malzberg Show on Wednesday. “In terms of the capability we have out there with the F-22s and the battleships … a pre-emptive strike from something like that would get their attention.”

One would think a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee would know it has been over 20 years since there has been an active battleship in the US Navy…