What more could we want from a President? For starters, someone who wouldn't trade arms for hostages, someone who wouldn't triple the national debt, someone who wouldn't grant amnesty to illegal aliens, and someone who wasn't suffering from dementia.
too stupid as if thats as important as winning the cold war, freeing 2 billion people, and starting the "Great economic Moderation"!
We have had various missile defenses since the 1950's. I was in the Navy in the 1970's and we had the BPDMS and CIWS systems for missile defense. "Star Wars" was supposed to be a space based missile defense system and isn't defending anyone from anything, except maybe protecting defense contractors from losing profits.
too stupid!! Liberals spied for Stalin and gave him the bomb. They have always been against our defense and Obama is no exception!!
The U.S. could have already had those 14 more interceptors in place, along with another 10 in Europe next year. The Bush administration deployed the first ground-based interceptor (GBI) in 2004, and had planned to deploy a total of 54. In 2009, Obama pulled the plug on that plan, and cut GBI deployment to just 30.
President Obama also mothballed or killed several other missile defense development programs. This included a scale-back of the Airborne Laser program to enable enemy missile interceptions during their early launch phase, along with the elimination of the Multiple Kill Vehicle and Kinetic Energy Interceptor which uses small warheads on a single rocket to handle decoys and offer a better chance of success. Obama’s 2010 defense budget cut $1.4 billion from the Missile Defense Agency.
A comparison of 2010 and 2013 budgets submitted by the Energy Department and National Security Agency indicates that 5-year budgets for nuclear and missile program modernization has been cut by $4.4 billion, the same amount the president had agreed to add to secure Senate support for his New Start treaty with Russia. This is ocourring as Russia prepares to field a new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including one type that can carry up to 15 warheads.
President Obama had also promised to build a modern Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement facility for handling plutonium which was included in the Treaty Resolution of Ratification and presented in his message to the Senate upon entry of the treaty into force. Yet that facility, which is essential for modernization to extend the life of aging ballistic nuclear warheads, has now been delayed for at least five years, and some believe, permanently
