Oh for Christ sake...1. H-Rod will never be POTUS. 2. If china ever launched a nuke strike against us...that would be the end of China...they're be a lot of Friy Wryce..to go around.
If they want to spend money to build missiles, let'em (china)...as long as we build up our defensive capabilities as well as retarget, and improve, our existing arsenal to deal with China. Last couple of articles I read on our (U.S.) Defensive/Strategic posture...we're doing exactly that.
Not really happening. Bush has still firmly kept Theater Ballistic Missile Defense, TBMD, cancelled. He has kept cancelled any fix of Aegis's SM-3, refusing to authorize the Flight IIa upgrade (undoing the damage of Xlinton's down-grading the engineering...preventing it from being a real ICBM-killer) .
Light weight Kinetic Interceptor, still cancelled.
All NMD Deployments...limited to futility. Even THEL, theater High Energy Laser remains cancelled. Still. Despite the insanity in Lebanon.
All limits in place. The withdrawal from the ABM Treaty was mere political pandering. He took its practical impact away with his side-deals.
... as well as retarget, and improve, our existing arsenal to deal with China.
You are aware that we are still drastically reducing our strategic arsenal...?
Last couple of articles I read on our (U.S.) Defensive/Strategic posture...we're doing exactly that.
Wrong. Read here. Independent Working Group on Missile Defense.
Wake us when W officially renounces the "strategic framework agreement" that he signed with Vladmir Putin as a secret attachment to the Moscow Strategic Armament Reduction Treaty in '02....and announces his intention to deploy real Aegis NMD, dedicated NMD ships, with an upgraded SM-3 Flight IIa interceptor... and a robust fleet of Brilliant Pebbles satellite missile interceptors ASAP.
From what I have seen, he is wearing full-time the same rose-colored glasses worn by his buddy Bill Xlinton.