It's long been my opinion that all four of the Iowa class battleships should be kept in ready to use condition and updated with the latest technology as time goes on. Nothing says "we'll kick your ***" like a battleship parked off shore.
Unless your enemy has no air force, battleships are nothing but floating targets. There simply aren't enough land-based enemy targets within range of the shore, and any major naval opponent has aircraft carriers.
That said, I certainly wish we still had stuff like that.
