[PhilDragoo]

Airborne or space-based lasers would permit rapid response to multiple launches. With his brilliance and resoluteness as example, we will succeed.

[The Westerner]

"Missile defense is for national survival, and it's more important than defense against terrorism."

This is an extraordinary statement because of its source. I think it deserves some attention in terms of its ramifications on foreign policy as well as defense spending priorities.