[SMCC1]

Last week, I heard a college professor go off on a tangent about this. He basically said missle defense is useless and stupid because it doesn’t work. Is that true?

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“Last week, I heard a college professor go off on a tangent about this. He basically said missle defense is useless and stupid because it doesn’t work. Is that true?”
Is your college professor stupid and useless? Probably.
Liberals arguing that missile defense is useless because it doesn't guarantee 100 percent capability of success is comparable to saying condoms are useless because there's no 100 percent guarantee they'll prevent conception. In both cases, there's zero percent chance of them working if they're not deployed.

[FocusNexus]

“He basically said missle defense is useless and stupid because it doesn’t work. Is that true?”

Obama to be told U.S. missile defense capable, general says

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/12/obama.missiles/?iref=mpstoryview

The outgoing head of the U.S. missile defense agency said he’ll tell President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team that missile defenses are workable and working in tests.

Lt. Gen. Trey Obering said Wednesday that missile technology is developed much further than some may believe it to be.

“Our testing has shown not only can we hit a bullet with a bullet, we can hit a spot on the bullet with a bullet. The technology has caught up,” Obering said Wednesday.

Although not mentioning the president-elect or any of his transition team by name, Obering said that many critics are “behind the curve.”

“What we have discovered is, a lot of those folks that have not been in this administration seem to be dated in terms of the program. They are kind of calibrated back in the 2000 timeframe,” Obering said.

“We’ve come a hell of a long way since 2000. So our primary objective will be to educate them on what we have accomplished.”