. welcome back. the mission in syria is being supported by warships which has fired missiles from the caspian sea. as we were looking at that video and looking at your map, it s really astounding, a thousand miles away, certainly far from a straight shoot as indicated in your map seen in the blue dotted line there, right? on purpose. the russians have a fleet in the caspian sea which is landlocked. no capital ships, pbig one like aircraft carriers. but lots of guided missile frigates and guided with cruise missiles like we have. you pointed out the route going from the southern part of the
shrink the navy is retiring important capital ships. he says, you know, president, mr. romney, you know we have aircraft carriers. so what is his point here? because it s high-tech and because it s multiplier of power we only have to have smaller ships? aircraft carriers don t patrol alone. for every one out there, you have ten times support ship. that is not an argument slinking the navy. i m not sure that there were people in norfolk, virginia, who he needs that is happy to hear that the navy is obsolete and shrink it at will. romney was playing not to lose the debate. i don t think he lost it. obama played seriously to win the debate. we go in with two questions of the outcome of the debate.
carrier you were being shadowed by an iranian ship. tell us about that. at the time i was actually and the u.s.s. bunker hill, which is the egypt-type cruiser that was the carrier s essort escort, and at a certain point through the morning haze, you could see off our star bird beam, about 3400 yards away, a dow, the dow are the ships of the area, mostly commercial ships, this one you knew was iranian because it was flying anan flag, it had a radar far too extensive for fishermen to own and it shadowed us and came within a mile. the officers going to the gulf for money years told me this is typical behavior on the part of the iranians. the worrisome thing is that there have been incidents over the last year in which the iranians have come very close to some of our capital ships and the fear is that even a small boat could do enormous damage to a very
up after this visit to make sure that we can continue of engaging those who are friendly in order to fight what we think is the biggest of all the threats the united states and the region and that is terrorism. that is going to be very hard to do. in the meantime, we are in the process of doing this largest of all arms deals. it s been estimated it s going to be well in excess of $100 billion over time. we re talking about selling capital ships, precision-guided and tanks and other equipment to saudi arabia. the real question is whether or not they re actually going to use it. we re training them to use it. we train them on maintenance. we, alongside the sales goes an assistance on how to use these weapons and this equipment. it remains to be seen whether or not they re actually going to use it for the purposes we want them to.