The Missile Shield is shelved! Huzzah!

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pastro243 said:
I find ridiculously paranoic the missile shield thing, people take security to a point where its just delusional, making international relations tense and giving a: "bring it on" message to their so called enemies.

If you are gonna cover every military scenario even if it means going outside your own territory it just makes it look like overeaction.

Why are defensive measures against missiles - the same missiles being actually TESTED by Iran and North Korea -- paranoid?  It's like saying Iran is paranoid when it buys air defenses against possible Israeli or U.S. bombing.  Iran firing a missile at the U.S. (when it perfected its ICBM) is certainly not a paranoid scenario.  Believe me, we all wish it were, but it's not.  The logic of MAD that has existed between the U.S. and Russia for decades cannot apply to Iran, a country ruled by religious fanatics who do not always act rationally.