[TigerLikesRooster]

I think the best course of action has been just stating the established policy. Not trying to make huge publicity over vowing to shoot it down. That is where everything went wrong.

Why can't he just utter a simple sentence, "If it is going to hit U.S. territory, it will be shot down," in a matter-of-fact fashion, without any qualification attached to it? This whole thing smacks of publicity stunt gone bad. So typical of Obama Admin..

[Tallguy]

Completely agree. The way the outgoing administration phrased the statement gIves the wrong impression to Low Information Voters (would they do that? LOL), not to mention allies & adversaries.