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Article: Cruise control: a case for missile defense.(cruise missile defenses)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have reshaped whole swaths of debate over U.S. foreign and national security policies. Certainly, the issue of homeland security is a case in point. In that context, it was inevitable that the various partisans and detractors of national missile defense, and those with contending views of how homeland security should be organized, would use the September 11 tragedy as evidence for their particular position. And they have. For example, those who have held the very idea of national missile defense to be a form of inanity--if not insanity--have argued that since no imaginable deployment of national missile defenses could have prevented ...