Think Progress Hopes for Failure

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 7:48 pm PDT • Views: 332

Think Progress hopes the US missile defense system fails: Administration Responds to North Korea Missile Stunt With Missile Defense Stunt. (Hat tip: Motleygunner.)

Really. That’s what they wrote.

The North Korean test is a political stunt designed to grab some attention. The same can be said of the decision to activate the Alaska site. The North Koreans want to increase their negotiation leverage; the U.S. Missile Defense Agency wants to protect its massive $10 billion annual budget — “more than the entire U.S. Army is spending on research and development” — for a product that doesn’t work.

We have to hope that neither stunt succeeds.

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 Frank says:

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money. -- on being asked by Tipper Gore if there was anything on the TV he _didn't_ allow his kids to watch ...