The Missile Shield is shelved! Huzzah!

[elprincipe]

halogamer1989 said:

elprincipe said:

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.

Hey Mikey, I think he gets it!  lol  elprincipe you are one of the great 1s here when it comes to foreign realism.  Thanks for letting others know how it really is out there.  Man I hope we don't devolve in our policy to a France - not realizing it is hitting the fan and then get hit...hard.  Unfortunately, Pres. Kumbayah thinks we can sit down with madmen and radical theologic regimes.  Sheesh.

I think there are just a lot of young folks on here who are rather ignorant of history and quite naive when it comes to this sort of thing.  Unfortunately, often in foreign affairs the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  Even more unfortunately for us as Americans, it looks more and more like we're going to get a crash-course lesson.