[Alberta's Child]

Maybe I'm completely ignorant about this, but I was under the impression that a missile defense system would be practically useless against anything other than an intercontinental ballistic missile. Heck, last September 11th the U.S. was completely powerless against four slow-moving (compared to missiles) passenger jets.

[Kozak]

Heck, last September 11th the U.S. was completely powerless against four slow-moving (compared to missiles) passenger jets.

I was just in DC over the july 4th holiday, despite all the "increased threat" talk. but something really bugs me, particularly when that light aircraft flew into the DC restricted air space.

We are at WAR. Why is there no air defence of our capital? There should be a 24/7 cap of fighters, a Patriot battery at each end of the mall and a Phalanx close defence weapon on the White House, Capital and Pentagon. What in Gods name do we have a military for?