The Costly Failure of Missile Defense
Bob Dreyfuss on July 26, 2013 - 12:29 PM ET
Never mind that no one is firing ICBMs at us. It’s been three decades
since Ronald Reagan cooked up his cockamamie plan to shoot down
missiles in the sky, and while technology has improved incalculably
since then, after countless billions of dollars—according to The New York Times, it’s $250 billion—the damn things still don’t work.
Last week, following yet another failure, and as if it just occurred to him, the director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency—yes, it has a whole “agency”—said that he’d look into it:
Last week, following yet another failure, and as if it just occurred to him, the director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency—yes, it has a whole “agency”—said that he’d look into it:
Following recent testing failures, the director of the Missile Defense Agency told Congress today that he is committed to a full evaluation of the way forward for the nation’s ballistic missile defense system.Of course, he added, the evaluation will cost money, too.
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