Washington flicks the switch to protect us from missile attack later this year. The first set of missile interceptors to form a missile defense system is set to go online. But top brass at the Pentagon have big doubts about it.
It's cost you $100 million dollars, has never been tested under realistic conditions, and cannot stop a terrorist attack.
But it will defend us against the Soviet Union -- if they were still around.
Like most of the Pentagon's most expensive weapon systems, it was designed to fight "the last war," not the next one.
The Bush administration says it's needed now to defend against a missile launch from North Korea. But we've got a defense against North Korea lobbing one of it's 10 or fewer nukes at the US -- the 10,000 or so nukes deliverable on a half-hours notice in the US arsenal.(WashPost)
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