Missile Defense

* I don’t know if being able to block a few missiles from North Korea is worth spending the ever-increasing billions they’re asking. Maybe it is. And I don’t know if it’s worth driving real powers like China and Russia into an arms buildup and a panic attack, although Russia seems to be softening a little. Maybe it isn’t.

But I really don’t know what kind of creature can take a system that fails almost all of a dozen tests that were rigged to begin with and tell us to push even harder for it. If we want some kind of missile defense, isn’t it important to find something that can actually defend us? Maybe it isn’t.

KEN HUGHES

Van Nuys