Missile Defense To Tie U.S. To Iraq, Afghanistan, Caspian, Experts Warn

Agence France Press

A key component of national missile defense, whose development is receiving priority this year, is likely to strategically tie the United States to Iraq, Afghanistan and some of the authoritarian former Soviet republics, requiring permanent US military bases there, according to officials and scientists involved in the project. ..

The growth rate will be almost as impressive in subsequent years: from 1.1 billion dollars in 2006 to 2.2 billion in 2009. Flight testing, say defense officials, is slated for fiscal 2010.

But the rocket-like ascent of the program is prompting some on Capitol Hill to wonder whether efforts to counter the missile threat from Iran will push the United States into questionable strategic alliances -- and will add new rationale to the already controversial US military presence in the region.

"It's just that they are throwing huge amounts of money trying to get the technology up and running without thinking clearly about the system they are going to construct," complained Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat of the US Senate Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee. ..

... of money at the project because it's another way to transfer wealth to the corporate elite.

There's tons of untapped oil in the Caspian region. If the US can control the Caspian, it can control China's ambitions there.

empty the government's pockets. When will these idiots and the people that vote for them wake up? THIS DOES NOT WORK.

Is that what this is saying? Gee, what a really fabulous way to let them get overrun by our enemies and fired at us.

Does the nuclear weapon detonate? If so, are you fussy about which way the winds are blowing or whose head it is over?

We could turn dimson's oil fields into a glass plate.

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