A Major Success for Missile Defense

Another success for the right of self-defense:

The U.S. military shot down a target ballistic missile over the Pacific on Friday in the widest test of its emerging antimissile shield in 18 months, the Defense Department announced. The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency said it had successfully completed an important exercise involving the launch of an improved ground-based interceptor missile designed to protect the United States against a limited long-range ballistic missile attack. The test results will help improve the performance of a multibillion-dollar shield against the type of long-range ballistic missile that could be used to attack a U.S. city with a weapon of mass destruction, the agency said in a statement.

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In the exercise, a target missile was launched from Kodiak, Alaska.

Certain despotic rogue leaders are no doubt disappointed. Of course, I’m referring to Margaret Floyd. Don’t let her grandmotherly appearance fool you; Kim Jong Il’s doesn’t make him any less dangerous, either.