John Tierney: “The true fact of the matter is we only have to look at scientists. There are a number of people missing from this debate…”

“The true fact of the matter is we only have to look at scientists. There are a number of people missing from this debate that would not be in favor of national missile defense. They are basically most scientists, our European allies and friends in other countries and a large part of our military. The fact of the matter also is that we do not rely on the same technology for NASA that we rely on for the missiles because if NASA fails, we understand that we need to go forward in there, we can have other attempts at this. If we are relying on a missile defense system and it fails, we are all dead. The fact of the matter is we need to test to make sure it works. This system has never fully tested the exact system that will be used ultimately. It has never shown that that would work.”