Giles Bayley — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:45:43 GMT

As far as I understand it, when they reassessed the performance of the Patriot system against the Scud threat in the first Iraq war, there was no reason to believe it made a single hit. Equally all the early tests of the SDI system were optimized for success and still missed.

I can’t see what the comparison with the space program has to do with it. That was new technology being theorized, designed and fielded at breakneck pace. This system fails for the job it was asked to do at the outset. Shifting goal posts isn’t new. Here we have huge amounts of money spent on something the scientists told the Pentagon was not feasible near term.

They were right. And the Pentagon lies for a number of reasons about many things. And the taxpayer gets the bill.

Oh, and those names that keep cropping up don’t seem to have any actual expertise of anything. As their record proves.

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