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Thanks for the ping. The needs for a complete SDI system continue to bark at the heels of those that resists. I would not spend another dime on manned flights within our solar system until a complete shield was developed. Of course NASA would scream it's butt off if the Airforce suddenly came back into vogue as the premier supplier of space systems. And with dwindling funds for any space programs, lets face it, minority moms and kids need big bucks to p*ss away on cell phones and the like, and a economy that could go flat as things develop in various circles, it is going to be a hard sell.
Surely we need leadership that will look very carefully at the need for SDI and associated ground/sea based system integration, and realize, if we don't start to advance along the "just right path", it will not see the light of day for a very long time if at all. The Russians and Chinese are not going to stand still in developing new ICBM systems that is for sure. And we no longer have a jump from the technological stand point. Everyone has good chemist,physicists,engineers,software system designers etc.. No one has a clear advantage anymore.

Thanks for the ping. The needs for a complete SDI system continue to bark at the heels of those that resists.

You're welcome, and thanks for your echoing this insight:

Surely we need leadership that will look very carefully at the need for SDI and associated ground/sea based system integration, and realize, if we don't start to advance along the "just right path", it will not see the light of day for a very long time if at all.

Totally agreed.

Its mortifying to me, and simply awful that the current Administration thought they could have their political cake and eat it too...that they could just posture as pro-NMD Reaganites...but then deploy only like Democrats! Not actually standing up for what they claim to stand for. Limited NMD is no NMD. Getting general votes from the electorate for the principle of NMD, but then garnering RAT support for governance by not seriously and consistently implementing that principle.

Eveyone is simply flummoxed by this White House refusal to actually deploy. It admits the threats, but won't respond. It is a contradiction that cannot be reconciled absent a conclusion of outright political chicanery...that they really never believed in it...

FReeper Sandyeggo pointed to something Whittaker Chambers once said that resonates across a wide number of issues about this White House...but especially to me on this issue:

But if the Republican Party cannot get some grip of the actual world we live in and from it generalize and actively promote a program that means something to the masses of people-why somebody else will. Then there will be nothing to argue. The voters will simply vote Republicans into singularity. The Republican Party will become like one of those dark little shops which apparently never sell anything. If, for any reason, you go in, you find at the back an old man, fingering for his own pleasure some oddments of cloth. Nobody wants to buy them, which is fine because the old man is not really interested in selling. He just likes to hold and to feel. . . .

I'm also afraid Unc you're right about this:

The Russians and Chinese are not going to stand still in developing new ICBm systems that is for sure. And we no longer have a jump from the technological stand point.

China has been spending apparently significant sums on advanced asymmetrical break-throughs in science. They and Russia have W promising to "limit" our NMD into uselessness, while meanwhile, they could be achieving the completion of missile defense programs we have already proven are possible...but never exploited for our ourselves...Sigh.