Under A Romney Administration Ballistic Missile Defense Will Be 'Revamped'

Missile Defense Priorities Would Shift Under Romney -- Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON -- Republicans are leaving little doubt that the U.S. government’s ballistic missile defense priorities would be revamped again if Mitt Romney is elected president.

The “American Exceptionalism” section of the party platform approved last week at the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., charges that President Obama has “systematically undermined America’s missile defense” through funding reductions and cuts to deployment of interceptors in Alaska, among other steps.

It says Republicans “will fully deploy a missile defense shield for the people of the United States and for our allies.”

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My Comment: The Russians are not going to be happy. But with trillion dollar deficits .... until this growing debt crisis is handled .... a Romney's administration plan of allocating funds to a "revamped missile defense program" will not happen. In short .... this is only politics.