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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] I'm not a two-year-old, but I'll take a stab. The missile defense shield, if it should ever go fully online, would only defend against missiles launched from outside the United States. If a missile were launched from inside the United States at a US target, the shield would be ineffective. The satellites monitoring missile launches are only scanning foreign countries. It would take a longer amount of time to attain a positive fix on the location and trajectory of a missile launched domestically. Added to that is the likelihood that the time needed to readjust, track, and target the bogey would be longer than the amount of time it would take for a domestically-launched missile to strike a domestic target. Another possible flaw is that it would not protect the US from non-missile terrorist attacks. A group of terrorists could receive a nuclear device in Brazil and secretly transport it up to Mexico. They could sneak across the Arizona border late at night and (given the right vehicles) escape detection by the Border Patrol. The terrorists could then park the nuclear device in a downtown LA parking garage and blow the hell out of Hollywood. A possible consequence of the defense shield would be the US government becoming cockier in handling situations with foreign governments. "We're protected, you can't do anything to us, so we're gonna do what we want," would be a prevalent attitude regardless of who is President. This could possibly unite our enemies against the US. Another consequence would be the restart of an arms race. Our more technological adept enemies will try to find countermeasures to our defense shield. Likewise, our side will try to find countermeasures to their countermeasures. It would turn into an unending cycle of improvements. However, should our technologically adept enemies decide not to outsmart the defense shield, they may simply decide to overwhelm it. Thus, the answer would be a stockpiling of powerful weapons. If all launched at the same time, the defense shield could be overwhelmed and allow a few missiles to score direct hits. [Edit: correctly a lot of bad grammar. Must remember to proofread long posts.] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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