{"id":2766,"date":"2007-10-13T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/10\/13\/12\/10\/2766\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T20:12:09","slug":"2766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/10\/13\/12\/10\/2766\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/story\/16600280\/the_shield\/print\">The SBX has been a source of ridicule. Although it was destined to work the Pacific rim of our defense, the entire unit was assembled in Texas, suggesting that some serious hometown earmarking went on somewhere. Unfortunately, given its massive size, the 50,000-ton vessel could not fit through the Panama Canal, so it had to be hoisted onto an even longer vessel for a slow and precarious journey around the tip of South America. 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