UPDATE 1-Pentagon test-fires two ($25+ million) SM-3 missiles on one target

[enlightenment]

2. Years ago there was a

cartoon of a CEO penning a memo to his employees that said, "our downsizing has been so successful that the company is out of business".

That's what we are doing as a nation - spending so much money to protect the USofA that pretty soon we'll have our very own iron dome of insularity . . . but the "American Way of Life" will be gone and all that will be protected are the privileged few and the survivors scrabbling for scraps in what remains of the streets.

People have always scoffed at Utopian "fantasies" but embrace Dystopian futures (just look at film - how often do you see a future that is someplace you'd like to live?)

I don't understand that way of thinking, but it certainly works out well for the paranoid and the war hawks.