Wayne Allard: “My colleague said all we have to have is mutually assured deterrence. That is a policy out of the cold war: Blow me up…”

“My colleague said all we have to have is mutually assured deterrence. That is a policy out of the cold war: Blow me up and I am going to blow you up. We are past that in this day and age. We are dealing with leaders in other countries who do not care, and that is where our threat is coming from, it is coming from countries such as Iran and North Korea. We need to figure out a new system, and we need to get it in place as quickly as we possibly can to make sure we can continue to provide the security to this country that the American people expect. The missile defense system is the answer. We are talking about a test bed that is overlapping with an operational capability, and anything we do to delay the operational capability, we delay testing. When testing is delayed, the cost of the program is run up and the program is delayed out. Then pretty soon there are cost overruns and then the opposition says, well, we cannot move forward because of all of these delays and cost overruns. The fact is, we are on schedule. We expect to get these missiles in the ground this fall, and we are going to begin to have a system in place where we can defend this country from an unexpected missile attack that may occur out of North Korea or Iran.”