"All you need is a spinning mirror and you can vaporize anyone or anything from space."
Posted on 03/05/2010 11:30:27 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Many of us had hoped when the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union disintegrated and, under the leadership of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the West won the Cold War without firing a shot, the world would be a safer place.
The opposite has turned out to be the case. Into the vacuum left by defeated Soviet troops in Afghanistan stepped the Taliban and al Qaeda. China remains an aggressive rival of the U.S., its military and economic ambitions growing. Iran funds Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. North Korea and Iran both stand on the nuclear precipice, thumbing their nose at the civilized world and destabilizing Asia and the Middle East.
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to fight "the U.S. and the Zionist regime" from the deck of a newly minted cruise-missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf. This kind of saber-rattling from the leading state sponsor of terrorism poses a threat, not only to the U.S., but to moderate Arab states, Israel and Europe.
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Obama jeopardizes America
Isn’t this the item that recently was proven to work well?
WTF!?! It works, they just tested the damn thing! Why would they kill it now after already taking out the interceptors from Europe???
It seems every day with these idiots in charge something happens that's like a kick in the groin...
“Maj. Gen. Bentley B. Rayburn”
Rayburn? Seriously??
I’m no weapons systems export but wasn’t this right on the edge of being practical?
Naturally, Zero the Communist Usurper wants to shut it down.
The biggest threat to National Security is the 1/2 black, half baked Jimmuh Carter clone in the WH.
LoL.. REALLY.. surely this is joke..
Treason is the reason...
"All you need is a spinning mirror and you can vaporize anyone or anything from space."
Why would we expect anything different from the Marxists running this country?
As I understand it, essentially yes.
This guy has one goal in mind, making sure the United States never again has even a minor influence on global dynamics.
Yes. That is why 0 is killing it. The man-child can not go a single day without doing something to harm this country. It will take decades to undo the damage this "distasteful, malevolent little quisling punk" (Dan Riehl) is causing.
Un-do starts November 2010.
I hope but am not confident.
So the brothers of the anti-American Nazi left have again done their duty to try and destroy our nation.
“Isn’t this the item that recently was proven to work well?”
I wonder. True, the laser system seems to work very well against liquid fueled (thin skinned) boosters, but can same be said for relatively thicker skinned solid fuel rockets? The wall thickness on the casings can be pretty thick on these types. Do they have the necessary “oomph” to burn through them?
Again, I wonder.
WTF? This cannot be true.
Why junk a weapons system after all the development costs that have been sunk into it and it’s on the verge of going operational.
Especially one with such potential as this one.
A fleet of these puppies would prove of inestimable value in a number of places.
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