Countering the Growing Missile Threat

America faces a growing missile threat from abroad — along with the prospect of huge defense cuts. Something’s wrong with this equation.

OPINION: Iran Shows Need For Missile Defense

Iran, along with North Korea, continues to pursue technologies that could support long-range missile development.

Giving Away the Farm

OPINION:

BY R. JAMES WOOLSEY, REBECCAH HEINRICHS

President Barack Obama’s administration recently threatened to veto the defense budget, citing “serious concerns” over provisions that limit the U.S. missile defense know-how that the White House is permitted to share with Moscow. This is the sort of information that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in his earlier days, would have assigned his spies to steal. Through its single-minded pursuit of “resetting” relations with Russia, the Obama administration may simply be willing to hand over this information and, in doing so, weaken U.S. national security.

Washington Times Opinion Column Discusses US Options in Dealing with Iran

Iran’s rapacious quest for nuclear weapons is more than a mere dilemma. If the Islamists in Tehran are successful, the balance of power in the world’s most productive oil region will change – and not to the benefit of the West.

Frank Gaffney Op-Ed: Anti-missilephobia; Team Obama schemes for further weakening of U.S. defensive shield

Frank Gaffney

What are we to make of President Obama’s attitude toward U.S. missile defenses? His past positions, his actions as president to date and the secret negotiations his administration has under way with Russia bespeak an alarming, ideologically driven hostility to the idea of protecting the American people and their allies from missile-delivered threats.

Given the irrationality of such an attitude in light of the intensifying dangers such threats represent, the Obama attitude might best be described as “anti-missilephobia.” Will Congress accommodate or counteract this potentially suicidal disorder?