Kill Wasteful Missile Defense Efforts by Ivan Eland

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Kill Wasteful Missile Defense Efforts

by Ivan Eland, July 31, 2013

In the 30 years, since President Ronald Reagan created his expensive pie-in-the-sky Strategic Defense Initiative – quickly and appropriately named "Star Wars" by critics and journalists alike – the United States has spent a whopping $250 billion on trying to shoot down fast intercontinental ballistic missiles, such as those that might someday be fielded by Iran and North Korea. This government effort has been a boondoggle, but then huge costs and poor performance rarely cause any government program to be terminated – evidence of this effect is exhibited by the continued flow of money to the project despite three decades of failure.