A lot of things which are printed in the Times-Reporter don’t make a lot of sense to me. Today was no exception. To the T-R’s credit, stories of a national or international nature are not generated by the T-R staff, but are reprinted from various news agencies. However, today there was a doozie.
The Pentagon was quoted in the T-R as being “very confident” that the United States could defend itself against an Iranian missile attack. Now that is scary enough, but the implication is that finally somebody in Washington is considering that Iran might be developing an intercontinental missile which could reach the US. It seems that the same people may have figured out that Iran is working on an atomic bomb. The government doesn’t mention atomic bomb. They now call it a nuclear capability. I’m glad to hear that the Obama administration is concerned about the US getting nuked by the Iranians. Up to this point this was not a major concern because, after all, Obama was pushing for sanctions in the UN and telling the world that he would really be disappointed if Iran didn’t quit developing atomic bombs and the missiles to send them to other countries.
Now with this in mind, we aren’t to worry as the Defense Department has confirmed that we have 25 long-range interceptor missiles based in Alaska and California as part of the system which is going to protect us from incoming missiles. That should let us all sleep well at night. Unless of course, you look at a world globe. Great locations for interceptor bases if you are going to try to shoot missiles from Russia or North Korea. Between the United States and Iran, where the shortest missile route is over the Atlantic, no bases, at least as far as the Associated Press article indicates. We had some in Europe but, as I recall, Obama shut those down.
But not to worry, we do have the 25 missiles should we need them. Whoops. One small problem. There have been 14 tests of these interceptor missiles. Testing is important you know. Lets you know how things work. Eight of the 14 worked, six failed. No big deal, however, as they failed because of software “glitches.” But don’t worry. According to the AP story, “US officials say the system should still work in the event of an attack.” Wonderful.
That close to half of those tested failed does not fill me with confidence. With a failure rate of close to fifty-percent, why isn’t the government looking into the reasons with the same ferocity that it is attacking Toyota? Could it be that Washington doesn’t have the same commitment to our national defense that it has to supporting General Motors and Chrysler?
The Pentagon was quoted in the T-R as being “very confident” that the United States could defend itself against an Iranian missile attack. Now that is scary enough, but the implication is that finally somebody in Washington is considering that Iran might be developing an intercontinental missile which could reach the US. It seems that the same people may have figured out that Iran is working on an atomic bomb. The government doesn’t mention atomic bomb. They now call it a nuclear capability. I’m glad to hear that the Obama administration is concerned about the US getting nuked by the Iranians. Up to this point this was not a major concern because, after all, Obama was pushing for sanctions in the UN and telling the world that he would really be disappointed if Iran didn’t quit developing atomic bombs and the missiles to send them to other countries.
Now with this in mind, we aren’t to worry as the Defense Department has confirmed that we have 25 long-range interceptor missiles based in Alaska and California as part of the system which is going to protect us from incoming missiles. That should let us all sleep well at night. Unless of course, you look at a world globe. Great locations for interceptor bases if you are going to try to shoot missiles from Russia or North Korea. Between the United States and Iran, where the shortest missile route is over the Atlantic, no bases, at least as far as the Associated Press article indicates. We had some in Europe but, as I recall, Obama shut those down.
But not to worry, we do have the 25 missiles should we need them. Whoops. One small problem. There have been 14 tests of these interceptor missiles. Testing is important you know. Lets you know how things work. Eight of the 14 worked, six failed. No big deal, however, as they failed because of software “glitches.” But don’t worry. According to the AP story, “US officials say the system should still work in the event of an attack.” Wonderful.
That close to half of those tested failed does not fill me with confidence. With a failure rate of close to fifty-percent, why isn’t the government looking into the reasons with the same ferocity that it is attacking Toyota? Could it be that Washington doesn’t have the same commitment to our national defense that it has to supporting General Motors and Chrysler?
The sad part about our missile defense is that if it fails, we die. Not a couple of hundred, but millions. Obama cut back on missile defense system research. Instead of requesting NASA, our missile experts, to aid in correcting and improving the defenses of our country, he assigned them the task of determining why brakes failed in some 200 Toyota automobiles. If you want to talk insanity, this is it.
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