A Carrier is an awesome weapon that has the capability to instantly engage an enemy with more firepower than we had at Normandy during the 2nd World War. The problem we have is identifying the enemy these days or even the potential enemy so we take incredibly expensive jaunts around the world being "a global force for good" on floating sexual soap operas because of the liberal social experiments. How many expensive tools like Nuclear powered Aircraft Carriers do we need? Why should we keep building obsolete weapons to fight a non-existent super-power?