Has any test of that system ever worked? I am not an expert, but am under the impression that they have made it work by giving it little helping hands, tweaking the tests, like, for example, limiting the type and number of decoys launched along with the test target missiles.
I'm not going to research it. But there seems to be a respectable consensus that since there's a limited amount of money that can be spent, priorities for missile defense by that system as it appears to work, or not, as a proposition, drop down, in the lists of many experts, below other items. Costs of the present open-ended war on terrorism are going to be staggering. They already are.
For the time being, MAD is going to have to do the same job it's been doing for the last 50 years while we reduce the number of "evil folks," as Dubya suggests, with our destruction as their top aim.
I'd say that getting our INS capacities to track delinquent student and travel visa holders in this country who come from hotbeds of terrorism would be a number one place to start spending money. This project alone will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
It would be nice, and i know this is a frill, if fewer PFC's were living on food stamps.
In any case, the agenda of absolutely immediate counter measures against terrorism (like security around reservoirs, to mention only one vulnerability that comes to mind) that need to be addressed is unthinkably enormous. |
