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Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com)
MarkWhittington writes: One of the more substantive issues that was discussed during the Republican presidential debate in Detroit concerned the latest threat to come out of North Korea. That country's mad, bad, and dangerous to know leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered his nuclear arsenal prepared and is firing missiles in the vicinity of Japan. The United States and South Korea have started military maneuvers, partly as a result of North Korea's actions. Discussions on deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea have also become urgent. Sen Ted Cruz, R-Texas would go one step further. He proposed reviving the idea of space-based missile defenses that were part of the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative.
I'm here all week :-)
I guess you haven't seen one of the televised debates lately.
That's why Bill went to Monica.
Wow. Re-write history much? I'm not going to argue that going in to Iraq wasn't a mistake -- it was. But that's based on hindsight. We went back in to Iraq in 2003. After nearly 20 years of trying to get Iraq to fulfill it's obligations which it AGREED to after the first Iraq war.
BTW, WMDs were found in Iraq (see NYT).
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11...
Old, yes -- Iraq, violating the UN and the agreements they signed to end the 1991 war, held on to what he had and maintained the ability to ramp up production the moment the world gave up playing inspection games.
The ONLY thing 911 did was make the US (and not JUST the US) say 'enough is enough'.
With regards to the 'visitors', that is almost ALL due to the mis handling of the middle east in the last 15 years -- and in particular the last 6. Seriously? Destabilize Iraq? Ok. But Egypt, Lebanon AND Syria all at the same time? That's just stupid.
We should just build a wall around NK.
And get MX to pay for it.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I guess you haven't seen one of the televised debates lately.
You mean those reality tv shows?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I love when some amateur internet "economist" dismisses a great economist as an idiot and, as proof, holds up public assistance programs as if they are net wealth creators.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.