Hey are you one of the lefties that attacked Reagan for wanting to build SDI?
Feeling kind of stupid now?
I am not a leftie and was not one during the Reagan years either. Reagan was my first Commander and Chief. Will admit as a young Marine I didn't think too much about the SDI. My first unit though was a HAWK missile battalion and that was a thing of beauty.
If we had our heads screwed on right, we would have defenses in place to take care of any attack from North Korea.
This is on our political leadership of the last 30 years.
Their incompetence is criminal.
North Korea's nukes are not a threat to the US mainland. But they are a problem for our two strongest allies in the region, Japan and South Korea. We also have a lot of troops stationed in those two countries that are at risk as well.
But hey, the NFL is way more important, as you can tell by Trump's tweeting
Defense systems take years to design and build. SDI should have been put in place decades ago.
If Trump called the pentagon on day one, and told them to move as quickly as possible, it would still be years.
This is on the presidents SINCE Reagan, all of them.
And the NFL issue is important. The fact that blatant anti-Americanism is considered normal by a large percentage of "Americans" is a huge problem for this nation.
Bigger than NOrth Korean nukes, actually.
We don't need SDI. We have the satellites that can track missile launches and predict their trajectory. We have surface to air missiles, and air to air missiles that can take out any missile that NK can launch at us. Now SDI would help SK and Japan, but did we ever try to do that? If we did I don't remember.
Do we have those missiles stationed in Hawaii linked to those satellites? What are their hit to miss ratios?
I don't believe we have the capability. We have not been a serious nation since Reagan, and only partially serious during his administration.