Posted on 04/09/2013 11:31:51 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Top admiral: US can intercept a North Korean missile
By Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube, NBC News
If North Korea decides to launch a missile, the United States is ready to respond and is capable of intercepting it, a top U.S. military commander told Congress on Tuesday.
The Commander of U.S. Pacific Command also said that he cannot recollect a more tense time between the U.S., South Korea, and North Korea since the end of the Korean War.
Responding to Sen. John McCain's statement that he doesn't know a time of greater tension in the decades since the war, Admiral Sam Locklear said that "I would agree that in my recollection I don't know a greater time."
Locklear told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. is ready to respond to a North Korean missile launch or other threat.
"I am satisfied that we are ready today, yes," Locklear said.
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We have the ability to knock it down as it sits on the pad.
But would we? Obama is just the kind of murderous thug who would embrace a crisis to impose martial law, especially as time is ticking on his second term.
Probably not.
Imposing martial law would end all this liberal incrementalism. There is no chance of that happening. Unfortunately.
And if they can’t the JMSDF has the Kongo and her sister ship out there as well. Hell, even the ROK has an Aegis cruiser. If the Norks launch, it’s going to be a race to see who gets to shoot it down.
I don’t know. October 1962 was tense enough for me, thank you very much.
Sorta calls to mind all the wise *ss flack Ronald Reagan took from know-it-alls about his anti-missile defense program.
Where are they now?
Absolutely! They essentially called him an idiot.
One of them is currently serving as Secretary of State.
We won’t if it doesn’t present a threat
That's a skill that will atrophe if the Ballon Head in Chief has anything to say about it.
The Clintoons are still running for something...
I can’t help but wonder what message the O administration gave them in that secret meeting. Anything these clowns touch turns to sh**
Keep in mind this is the same officer that only last month claimed that Global Warming was the greatest threat to the US.
I believe the term they used was ‘dunderhead’. Amazing that the technology that protects us today was inspired and developed 30 years ago.. Lord how I miss that man...and a clear vision.
They’re getting Chelsea groomed to start her political career. Hillary is toast BC of Benghazi.
Good for you...
I keep posting that genius assessment from the “top” guy in the Pacific who is supposed to keep us safe and all I get here is...crickets!
So true...
And I know someone who has been working on SDI for a few years now and what’s he worried about these days??? Not No. Korea....
Losing his job!!!
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