It Remains Madness

U.S. inventing threats to justify nuclear build-up

Published May 18, 2005

The United States' anti-missile defence program has to be the most idiotic military decision since the Trojans allowed the Greeks to wheel a large wooden horse through the gates of Troy. The Trojans, after all, didn't know what was inside the horse -- and getting it cost them no money.

At a cost so far of close to $100 billion, America's anti-missile system suffers from two consequential defects: It...

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