Obama's missile defense screw up

Peter Brooks:

Official estimates suggest that Iran might be able to strike the United States with an ICBM as soon as 2015. But under current White House plans, a US missile-defense system capable of stopping it won’t be ready until 2020 -- or later.

Anyone else see a half-decade disconnect there? Indeed, it looks like we may have to live with a sworn enemy’s expected long-range nuclear threat for at least five years, if not more.

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...   Team O chose to kick the Bush administration’s “Third Site” missile-defense proposal to the curb. That plan would have been operational in 2013 -- two years before the expected Iranian ICBM.
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Obama came in with a hostility toward missile defense and campaigned against its deployment. We may have to pay a very high price for is ideological obstinacy.

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