The Bush’s decision to pursue Ballistic Missile Defense, in order to develop a functional missile shield against a limited missile attack from any rogue state, is and should be pursued by the Administration. I believe that the rationale that the Bush Administration is using correct in this situation. The future of the world at this point and time is quite uncertain. One day the world could be a great place to live, the next day, it could be nothing but death and destruction. The question that should be asked here is “why wouldn’t the United States do everything in the county’s power to try and protect themselves from outside threats such as rockets launched by other countries?”
Since the use of missiles began in World War II, when Hitler used missiles to r
This defense system would have a profound affect on the stability of the international system. I believe it would give both good and bad advantage to the United States. The good being able to step into any argument about weapons of mass destruction to stop organizations from building more missile of this type. This would give the United States less threat to worry about when a country threatens to use their missiles against us. Knowing that we have some type of shield to protect the U.S. from that type of attack. The bad being, it might give us the overconfidence to maybe use our weapons of mass destruction. Thinking our weapons will destroy them, and theirs if and when they retaliate will be shot down. I believe the shield will give the U.S. the high ground against e