Saturday, March 16, 2013
Austerity forces sanity!
News item:
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has scrapped the final phase of its European missile defence shield, citing development problems and funding cuts. The US has always insisted that the missile shield was intended to protect against attacks by Iran and North Korea. The dropping of the fourth and final phase of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) for missile defence was announced quietly at a news conference, reports the BBC's Matt Wells in Washington. Almost as an aside, Mr Hagel confirmed that in order to fund 14 new Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs) in Alaska by 2017 to guard against increased threats from North Korea, the SM-3 IIB programme - a land-based standard missile - would be "restructured", our correspondent adds.Bravo Hagel! For the first time in many decades, we're DEFENDING THIS COUNTRY instead of fucking around in other countries that have zero connection to our interests. ¶ 4:20 AM
