World Community Joins US on Missile Defense

All right-minded people are strongly opposed to rogue states like North Korea and Iran getting nukes, and rightly so.

So all right-thinking people deplore the actions of North Korea in fueling up an intercontinental missile capable of reaching the United States.

But how bad are things, really?

The United States took the opportunity of announcing that it was making operational its ballistic missile interceptors based in Alaska and California, according to Alan W. Dowd.

And of course the bellicosity of North Korea and Iran is influencing other minds. Slowly but surely, the US is building its International Missile Defense (IMD) system, not just in the US, but across the world.

As the technological pieces fall into place, so too does the IMD alliance: The Polish and Czech governments are negotiating with Washington on the deployment of anti-missile bases on their soil, enabling the IMD system to peer deep into Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The Poles have even expressed a willingness to open their territory to missile interceptors.

NATO has just published a report declaring IMD feasible.

And the Japanese are getting up off their Japan knees and joining the IMD coalition too.

[T]he Japanese system already includes a network of new ground-based radars; SM-3 interceptors, which attack incoming missiles at their highest point; missile-tracking Aegis warships, which patrol near rogue countries; and Patriot PAC-3s, which serve as a last line of defense.

It’s odd. The MSM would have us believe that the whole world is united against the US aggression in the Middle East. But here we have everyone signing up to become a part of our missile defense system.

And why not? One fine day, one of these rogue states is actually going to fire off one of their missiles.

It wouldn’t hurt if the US and its allies could shoot it down.