Most impressive again JaTo..

Just to add
qoute:
"Is Condi Rice still focusing on missle defense? (OK, that last one's a cheap shot. That was her focus on 9/10/01. After all, she did change her focus the next day to Iraq. Must have been because of all those Iraqi hijackers."

Personnally, I think its not such a bad idea still. We have N. Korea shoting missiles over Japan, probably now have or soon will have Nukes to tip them and actively working on (or may have) capability top hit the US west coast. In case our plan A fails (the 6 way talks)..its good to have a backup. Then there are the unstable former USSR states...some of which have active terrorist groups and could concieveably get control of a silo. Pakistan is nuclear capable, long range missle ready and only a single bullet to Mr. Musharif's head may be keeping militant Islam from the keys to the silos.

As for me, I hope someone is thinking about missle defense. We have moved beyond the cold war but new threats are as bad or worse...at least the Soviets understood MAD (mutual assured destruction). I'm not so sure that radical Islam or that Korean nutjob with the bad haircut do. The war on terrorism is 3 dimentional..need to expect the unexpected.

I think we'll hear the rest of what Connie Rice was thinking and planning next week...they asked for it and they will get it. I am pretty sure that more serious thought had occured and plans being prepared in the 8 months of Bush's tenure than 8 years under Clinton. Not that this matters...it is clear from every poll that Americans believe by a huge margin that Bush is the prefered guy to deal with terrorists. Kerry NEEDS to sell Americans on a bad economy and blame Bush for it to win....and that is why the 300,000 new jobs is a real kick in the nuts for him. Pity

1999 Amazon Green SVT Contour (#554/2760) "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." -Soren Kierkegaard (as posted by Jato)