Something tells me Madame Parrish is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Dear madam idiot - in reply to your c) rebuttal I offer this. "I" gave the order in a training exercise in 1992 to shoot down a "bullet" with a "bullet". In actuality it was even tougher and easier than this - bother were guided 'bullets'.
I was supposed to call off my bullet at the last minute to save some money - unfortunately we missed that button. In the end my sailors cheered loudly with the knowledge that they kicked ass. This was following a 9 month operational trudge to protect my country as well as your sorry asses.
Oh - and my degree is in Physics - so don't give me that cockamammy bull about this not working - it works so shut the hell up.
"If we defend ourselves, it will make our enemies mad and make us into bigger targets."
Man, I hate that kind of defeatist talk. It's the whine of the coward and the appeaser.
Thank heaven we don't have any politicians who talk that way here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.