An Appropriate Tribute: Brutish, Unnecessary, and Obsolete

In what is perhaps the most fitting recent tribute I can think of, the US Navy has commissioned the last of its Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and named it after George H. W. Bush. The new carrier...

cost $6.2 billion and took five years to build. It towers 20 stories above the waterline, has a flight deck of more than 1.8 hectares, and measures 333 meters long.

It's also the last in the line of Nimitz-class carriers, and is largely obsolete in a modern world where "force projection" against nation states is a thing of the past. A $6 billion dinosaur, floating the world's oceans, impotently touting American imperalism...what a fitting tribute to a one-term failure of a President who screwed up the economy, started an unnecessary war, and gave us a son who turned America into a third world nation.