Fighting the Cold War in the Gulf

I was reading this interesting article on Task Force 58, the coalition naval force in the Persian Gulf, when this sentence by a US Navy Captian struck me:

We have this huge cruiser designed for the Cold War," US Captain Hank Miranda, current commander of the naval group deployed in the northern Gulf, told AFP aboard the USS Chosin.
"Was it designed to do this? No. Are there other weapons that would be more efficient? Yes," he said.

I know I complain alot that the Navy is building the wrong type of ships to fight the War on Terror, but it really adds weight to the argument when someone in the fleet is saying the same thing!