You need a more open mind, Navaleye.
I'm not surprised that you should 'pay a lot of attention to what Vice Admiral Tod says' or indeed to what anybody says who agrees so neatly with your own narrow, fixed, impractical and outdated ideas.
I'm equally unsurprised by your patronising and ignorant dismissal of anyone who disagrees with you as spouting 'journalistic drivel'.
When you keep harping back to the Falklands as the great example of the carrier's utility, and when you steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that the argument today is about cost effectiveness and affordability, and not about absolute capability per se, however, it strikes me that you're the one who is out of date. You certainly seem painfully ill-informed as to the budgetary realities and limitations of the post Cold War environment.
If anyone who punctures your balloon, and attempts to point out that we simply cannot afford to do everything is guilty of 'spouting drivel' in your book it says more about your ostrich like tendencies than it does about them.