Believe it or not but many of us who are working very hard on missile defense are not running a racket.
Instead, we are striving to make a very complicated and difficult defense system reality. It is really easy to sit back and take shots: "It's a racket." OK, YOU do better.
ABL is 7 years behind schedule?...how many years behind schedule would it be with you in charge?
There are thousands of dedicated and patriotic people--engineers, scientists, technicians, and office workers--who are trying to strengthen our nation's defenses.
What have you done to strengthen our defense?
--Boris
P.S. My brother is a raging liberal. I told him: "Liberals are in favor of any paper defense system--as long as it remains on paper. The instant it threatens to become reality, they oppose it. The will do anything to weaken America."
He replied heatedly, "are you questioning our patriotism?"
"Yes."
After all, what more important and constitutionally mandated job does Fedgov have than to make sure that a nuke doesn't land on Ol' Pardek's (or any other American's) noggin???