Here's a pretty good analysis from Foreign Policy magazine that I read yesterday.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/09/17/the_new_defense_realism?page=0,1 Basic run down is that Bush admin wanted to use the missile defense systems they've been trying to get to work in Alaska. Three fundamental problems with that is that 1, it doesn't work very well if at all and 2, the technology that doesn't quite work yet would have to be adapted to a new situation and 3, it is built for working against long range missiles (ICBM) and the major threat in the Eastern European theater would be Iran (which doesn't have long range missiles and won't for quite some time) and possibly Russia, which would be using short and medium range missiles on Eastern Europe, not long range missiles. Basically, the Obama admin said that we should focus on short and medium range missile defense in that theater and use technology that is more proven for that purpose. Judah On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So the "old" system is still being built. The new system is the old > system but on ships. > So what happened? Did we just hand Russia a carrot while Poland an > Czech Rep got the stick? > Did anything really change or is this political maneuvering. > I'm asking because I can seem to find details about what changed. > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As much as I do not like Obama and over 90% of his policies, I have to >> admit that yesterdays speech about scrapping the missile defense shield >> in Europe is a smart move. I was never really a big fan of this system >> as I thought it was unnecessary. His current plan of using ships for >> potential threats by Iran is a lot smarter and much more cost effective. >> We have plenty of Patriot missile systems all over the world and this >> system has proven to work. We already have ships so the initial cost >> outlay has been realized. Use what we have rather than build expensive >> and redundant systems. Nice job Mr. Prez. Now if he could only apply the >> same common sense to other things we will be in good shape. >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:304440 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
