Re: [Pen-l] comedy of errors?

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On 6/19/09,  Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> said:

>
>> . . . . the United States is deploying ground-to-air missile
>> defenses to Hawaii out of fear that North Korea may soon
>> try to fire a long-range missile in that direction. *   *   *
>> Robert Gates . . . noted there are "some concerns if
>> [NK] were to launch a missile ? in the direction of Hawaii"
>> while assuring that "we are in a good position ? to protect
>> American territory."   *   *   *
>
>  I'd bet that the NK missile (if it's fired) will go off course
>  or explode in mid-air, since a small number of tests does not
>  make an expert missile-launching system. (The same kind of
>  misfire happens with NASA now and then.)  And the US
>  missile-defense program seems similarly unproven . . . .

 . . . and so an NK launch, if one occurs, may provide the occasion for a 
U.S. military test of whatever anti-missile system there may be and 
(perhaps especially if an NK missile explodes on its own) maybe also an 
occasion for a propagandistic claim of, "Success!!" of a so far unproven 
"missile-defense" that would not be realistically refutable.  comedy of errors?



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