how do you get the little saying after your name in the threads?
On the posting page where you input the text for your reply, you will find another, single line box just above the posting buttons. The label for the box reads: "Tag line (optional, printed after your name on post):"
You can keep multiple tag lines in the system and invoke them by clearing the box and typing in the first letter of the tagline you want for a particular situation.
And your concern for radar to distinguish hundreds of targets, as well as a couple of good guys with Stingers (especially when I thought the White House had them already), is great.
It's a variation on the old chaff trick. Fill the sky with a cloud of floating junk and shoot through it with lots of cheap dumb weapons. When the missile gets close it homes in before the defending system can respond. I'm not saying it would work, I'm suggesting that if I were in the position of not having a lot of money to respond to this big-buck laser, that I would be thinking along the lines of "how do I use what I've got in order to make this monster a waste of money."
Now that you mention it, the fact that we had all that time and STILL couldn't get our act together is very disturbing.
As a taxpayer, it really pisses me off. What are we paying these people for if they can't shoot down a loaded bus with more than ten minutes notice?