N. Korea missile shoot-down: testosterone run amok

nothing like real-time target practice...

If North Korea launches a long-range missile, as some U.S. officials say appears likely, then the Pentagon may get a first chance to use its unproven missile defenses against a real target.

Although the North Korean missile most likely would be launched for a flight test or to put a satellite in space, Bush administration officials are considering the possibility of shooting it down, since they cannot rule out in advance that the missile might be fired with hostile intent.

gives us a chance to try out a system that, in this december 16, 2004, story from the progress report, may be another boondoggle...

The Bush administration's rush to deploy a costly, unproven national missile defense system "suffered an embarrassing setback yesterday when an interceptor missile failed to launch during the first flight test of the system in two years." Pentagon officials could not immediately explain the reason for the failure, which cast fresh doubt on the feasibility of a system that "by some accounts has cost $130 billion and is scheduled to tally $50 billion more over the next five years." The previous test, in December 2002, "also flopped when the kill vehicle failed to separate from the booster."

let's see if we can't get ourselves into another war...

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