A senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor says the United States simply doesn't have the anti-ballistic missile assets to be able to handle various threats around the globe.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently defended the administration's new approach to missile defense in Europe, saying it will enhance protection of the U.S. and its NATO allies. In a speech at the Brookings Institution, Clinton disputed critics who assert that President Barack Obama will leave Europe more vulnerable to missile attack. She said his new approach will improve U.S. capabilities to defend against an Iranian missile threat by building a more comprehensive anti-missile system at sea and on land. Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.) is one of those critics of the Obama policy. He thinks the president has taken on a lot more than the military can handle. "We don't have enough pieces to move around for all the threats in the world today anyway. Even if we were to pump money at it, we can't create Aegis cruisers overnight. That takes years. So he's bitten off a lot more I think than we can take on," he contends. "If you have a spin up in North Korea and one in Iran simultaneously, much less anywhere else, I don't know how in the world we're going to be able to cover these requirements." Maginnis contends the decision by the president was done to appease the Russians. In fact, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised Obama's decision to scrap plans for a missile defense system in Europe and also urged the U.S. to cancel restrictions on trade with Russia.
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