Not sure where you get your info but its wrong.
2015 Aircraft Carrier Strength by Country
Wow... so the US has 20 (more than the rest of the world combined). And our most prominent potential enemies, Russian and China have one each.
And we were run out of the ME by a bunch of camels.
Exactly. Military supremacy is an inherently limited kind of power. We could have 100 times our currently military power and it would still be about the same.