Is Obama to Blame for Recent Missile Failures?

On July 5, the Pentagon's ground-based midcourse defense program, or GMD, failed to intercept a ballistic missile fired from the Marshall Islands. Although the launch was only a test, the July 5 failure was the latest in a string of failures since successful runs in 2008. Now, some lawmakers are blaming that failure on President Obama and his administration, because of their decision to "drastically cut funding for the GMD program," leaving it on "life support."

While I believe the United States needs an effective counter to the power of other states it is becoming more plausible that nukes can and will be used by non-state actors. Hezbollah has shore launched anti-ship missiles and has successfully attacked and damaged several Israeli ships and sunk one Greek freighter. Hezbollah and Hamas have remotely piloted aircraft. Hezbollah has the opportunity to acquire poison gas. Once Iranian nuclear weapons come on-line they may easily arm one of their proxy organizations with a nuke that will be shipped via commercial carrier or private boat into any city in the world. We had, and have now squandered, an opportunity to nip most of this danger in the bud by ending the Islamic Jihad. Now, with the euphemistically named “Arab spring” Obama has made ending this scourge nearly impossible.

It will take, potentially, millions of innocent deaths in some American city to regain the initiative. Now, with Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran in varying degrees of chaos the job has become exponentially more difficult and therefore the cost in lives and treasure will be much higher than if we’d not elected Obama.

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