Sunday, August 06, 2006

Cohen confused

In today's rant Nick Cohen after arguing that worrying about planes is silly as we don't fight enemies with air forces anymore, he then turns tail and says:

Take the Type 45 destroyers. The navy was determined to spend money on them rather than aircraft carriers, even though Britain needs carriers to provide a safe base for fighters in combat beyond the reach of suicide bombers.

Over at Aarowatch we've been trying to understand what he means. Can anyone help?