Thursday, May 21, 2009

Whistling Past Armageddon -- A Commentary

A crowd greeted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran as he arrived to speak about the test firing of a new missile on Wednesday during his visit to Semnan. Atta Kenare/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

From IBDeditorials.com:

Strategic Defense: As Iran tests a new missile, a threat assessment by a team of Russian and American analysts says the Iranian menace is overblown and a missile defense futile. The real danger is that we'll listen to them.

Iran's quite-mad President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Wednesday the successful test of the Sajjil-2, a solid-fuel, surface-to-surface missile with a range of 1,200 miles, far enough to strike at southeastern Europe.

Many analysts said the launch of the Sajjil was significant because solid-fuel missiles are more accurate than liquid-fuel missiles of similar range, such as Iran's Shahab-3.

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