“..Like a teacher with a particularly stubborn pupil, President Barack Obama gave a masterclass in foreign policy to Mitt Romney in their third and final presidential debate before the election in two weeks.
Obama listened patiently as the Republican nominee explained why he wants to boost military spending because the Navy is smaller than at any time since 1917 – and the US Air Force smaller than at its creation in 1947.
He was careful not to smirk and grin like his Vice-President, Joe Biden, did last week during the vice-presidential debate.
But Obama’s response when it came was a devastating putdown of the former Governor of Massachusetts.
“Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military’s changed.
We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them.
We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”
After that – it was game over..”
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