Did Romney Just Endorse Space-Based Weapons?

[Meeker Morgan]

From a right wing source, but hideously interesting none the less.

Did Romney Just Endorse Space-Based Weapons?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279586/did-romney-just-endorse-space-based-weapons-taylor-dinerman

In his speech on defense and foreign policy at South Carolina’s Citadel Military Academy on October 7, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said: “I will begin reversing the Obama-era missile defense cuts and prioritize the full deployment of a multilayered national ballistic-missile defense system.” If conservatives hold him to this promise, it will be a significant step towards fulfilling the goal of making nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete” that Ronald Reagan laid out in his famous March 1983 “Star Wars” speech.

[Ikonoklast]

1. Nah, he's just going to put missiles on Planet Kolob.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob


And by having MORE weaponry to make us 'safer' has been shown to be a failure on its face.

The current Asymmetric Warfare being waged against this country is pointing out that failure, I guess Mittens has been asleep these last twenty years or so.

[Mz Pip]

2. And pay for it how???

Aside from the fact that this is a truly stupid idea, it's beyond expensive.