Obama's missile defense screw up
Peter Brooks:
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.
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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