I'm trying to figure out why the Chinese would base missiles a quarter of a million miles away from the us giving a couple of days flight time when they can put them in boomers 50 miles off the coast.
It makes no short-term sense, true. Our spending should reflect the greater threat. That doesn't mean that the Chinese aren't planing to do it eventually; they make very long-term plans. Is Newt over-enthusiastic? Yes. Is it also a ploy to get aerospace worker votes? Yes.
It doesn't mean that NO public money should go toward it.