What can be done in three and a half years?

From a commenter at another blog: 

For the U.S., World War 2 started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  Two and a half years later came the allied invasion of Europe ("D-Day").  In April 1945--three and a half years after the Japanese attack brought America into the war--Germany surrendered.  Four months later, on September 2, 1945, Japan surrendered.  For America the war lasted three years and nine months.

During that three years and nine months the U.S. built

• 22 aircraft carriers
• 8 battleships
• 48 cruisers
• 349 destroyers 
• 420 destroyer escorts 
• 203 submarines 
• 34 million tons of merchant ships
• 100,000 fighter aircraft
• 98,000 bombers
• 24,000 transport aircraft
• 58,000 training aircraft 
• 93,000 tanks
• 257,000 artillery pieces 
• 105,000 mortars and
• 2,500,000 military trucks.  

• We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services
• invaded Africa 
• invaded Sicily
• invaded Italy
• defeated Hitler's formidable U-boat fleet in the battle for the Atlantic
• invaded German-occupied Europe (D-Day)
• invaded scores of Japanese-held islands in the Pacific
• developed the atomic bomb and forced the Japanese surrender.

In almost the same amount of time (three years and six months)--with no one shooting at them--the Obama administration couldn’t build a functioning web site.