Saturday, March 16, 2013
Like two skinny kids in sumo suits
Overwhelmed by the immense padding of the suits, they flail away at each other in ways that won't ever be effective. Such is the latest part of the Best Korea/US confrontation.
The Pentagon will spend $1 billion to deploy additional ballistic missile interceptors along the Pacific Coast to counter the growing reach of North Korea’s weapons, a decision accelerated by Pyongyang’s recent belligerence and indications that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, is resisting China’s efforts to restrain him.Yessir, By God! We are so willing, we will piss away a Billion dollars on an ineffective system to counter an attack from an ineffective system. That should show them we mean business! And once again a worthless weapons system, desperately in need of cutting, gets a new lease on life.
The new deployments, announced by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday, will increase the number of ground-based interceptors in California and Alaska to 44 from 30 by 2017.
The missiles have a mixed record in testing, hitting dummy targets just 50 percent of the time, but officials said Friday’s announcement was intended not merely to present a credible deterrence to the North’s limited intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal. They said it is also meant to show South Korea and Japan that the United States is willing to commit resources to deterring the North and, at the same time, warn Beijing that it must restrain its ally or face an expanding American military focus on Asia.
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