"Star Wars" missile defense comes of age

India carries out anti-missile test - Yahoo! News:
"India has also been in talks with the Israel, the U.S. and Russia to buy a proven anti-missile defense system, and the Press Trust of India news agency quoted an unnamed defense officials as saying India would still pursue such options."

I remember when Gen. Daniel Graham and his associates got the Reagan administration to run with the idea of developing a missile defense system which they called the Strategic Defense Initiative and the commies, fellow travelers, useful idiots and Democrats ridiculed as Star Wars, telling us it would never work and if it would it would be a bad thing to have.

Well, here we are over 20 years later and the Chinese commies have threatened to destroy Los Angeles and San Diego with nuclear warheads, pieces of a North Korean test missile have fallen on Alaska, and the religious zealots of Iran are trying to build a nuclear warhead for missiles that can already reach as far as Italy.

It's a good thing that SDI has been puttering along - unappreciated and underfunded - all these years so that we are still seen as in the running as one of three countries that might be able to supply anti-missile defense systems to India.