What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
Barack ObamaYou mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did 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 these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
Barack Obama