A New Approach
For want of a nail...
It occurs to me that, since we're already spending a lot of money, and the North Koreans seem to be building nukes faster than we can build something to shoot 'em down, and we want to build up our nuclear arsenal anyway, and we apparently don't have any compunctions about giving over our security to Asian countries, there is a simple solution.
Let's outsource our nuke program to North Korea!
They'll work cheap, I'm sure. (Heck, they ought to put up a "will work for food" sign at the border. Really, what would it take to feed the whole country, compared to what we're paying Boeing, Raytheon, and Northrup?) We give them all the attention and money they want, we don't need to worry about them attacking anybody, we get cheap weapons, and we can stop embarrassing ourselves with these missile tests. It's a win-win.
With the Asian knack for miniaturization, I bet the "Dear Leader II" series of bunker-busting nukes could be small enough to drop from a drone, and we'd spare ourselves the trouble of cleaning up Hanford and Rocky Flats. It'd be the perfect use of the free market to spread democracy, or at least capitalism (which is what really counts, right?), to the last Stalinist regime on the planet. Globalization is good!
W, feel free to use my idea, but I get Cheney's usual percentage.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's planned ballistic missile shield suffered another setback on Monday when an interceptor missile again failed to launch during a test of the U.S. missile defense system.Aside from us not being able to launch it, that is.
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said it could not complete the planned $85 million repeat of a failed December test after the interceptor missile failed to launch from its base in the Pacific Ocean.
The interceptor missile, built by Orbital Sciences Corp., had also failed to launch during a Dec. 15 test, which officials later blamed on a "very minor software glitch."
Officials were working "feverishly" to determine the cause of the failed launch, said Chris Taylor, agency spokesman.
Preliminary indications pointed to a problem with the missile's ground support equipment, rather than the missile itself, which was good news for the program, said Rick Lehner, another spokesman for the agency.
"There is no indication that there is anything wrong with the actual interceptor," said Lehner.
It occurs to me that, since we're already spending a lot of money, and the North Koreans seem to be building nukes faster than we can build something to shoot 'em down, and we want to build up our nuclear arsenal anyway, and we apparently don't have any compunctions about giving over our security to Asian countries, there is a simple solution.
Let's outsource our nuke program to North Korea!
They'll work cheap, I'm sure. (Heck, they ought to put up a "will work for food" sign at the border. Really, what would it take to feed the whole country, compared to what we're paying Boeing, Raytheon, and Northrup?) We give them all the attention and money they want, we don't need to worry about them attacking anybody, we get cheap weapons, and we can stop embarrassing ourselves with these missile tests. It's a win-win.
With the Asian knack for miniaturization, I bet the "Dear Leader II" series of bunker-busting nukes could be small enough to drop from a drone, and we'd spare ourselves the trouble of cleaning up Hanford and Rocky Flats. It'd be the perfect use of the free market to spread democracy, or at least capitalism (which is what really counts, right?), to the last Stalinist regime on the planet. Globalization is good!
W, feel free to use my idea, but I get Cheney's usual percentage.
posted by Paul at 8:42 AM |
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