[Centurion2000]

So we have a system capable of delivering enough energy to destroy a missile in flight ....

WHY are we not using this as a nice, static, SPEED OF LIGHT anti-aircraft battery around extremely high value targets???

[marron]

Excellent idea. If it can take out a missile 200 miles away it ought to be able to take out an enemy aircraft.

If they can flush a trillion down a rathole that nobody can account for, I think we can spare another billion for this thing.

[AFreeBird]

So we have a system capable of delivering enough energy to destroy a missile in flight ....

WHY are we not using this as a nice, static, SPEED OF LIGHT anti-aircraft battery around extremely high value targets???

Ummm, no logical thinking will be tolerated. This is the government we're talking about here. And a Marxist Obamanation of a government at that.

But I would like to think that there are those who wear the uniform, and believe the oath they took, to have thought along similar lines. And what ZerØ doesn't know, won't hurt us. Protecting the US of A is not on their agenda.