re: #135 Decatur Deb

True, but those decisions must be made with the best-guess technological and political crystal balls available. Spending too much or too little in the face of uncertainty can kill a nation.

Yet at the same time, what’s accomplished? We’ve spent decades and billions already in research and we have a program that’s got a 50/50 chance of knocking out one warhead. As Frank noted, we signed the ABM because of the very situation we find ourselves in now: As we improve our ABM technology, our enemies find means of getting around it. So we’re now stuck in a circular track, developing better interceptors to knock out missiles that will simply be improved to beat our interceptors.