Boy, how soon do people forget.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/backdoor-in-mission-critical-hardware-threatens-power-traffic-control-systems/

Made in Canada :p.

Security vulnerabilities are everywhere. You cannot *whitelist* by country. I'll bet you 20 bucks that even if you only used US parts manufactured and designed in the US, you will *still* find backdoors like the one described here which a sufficiently dedicated attacker with a password sniffer will be able to break right open. Your only protection is rigorous security testing and multi-layered defense.

Uh... why is the parent marked as troll? It's basically factually correct.

North Korea measures 200x400 miles. Taiwan 200x100. Beijing is 100 miles inland. Shanghai is coastal. Even Lhasa, Tibet, is 500 miles inland. You're spending multiple billions of dollars to extend strike capabilities to that part of China even the Chinese government don't care that much about.

What is the purpose of a deterrence that you cannot see coming?

Europe *doesn't* want this. The Poles don't want this. The US is paying for it, because it's part of a full package of arm twisting and bribery to make them accept something that fundamentally makes their position less secure.

"According to a poll by SMG/KRC released by TVP 50 per cent of respondents reject the deployment of the shield on Polish soil, while 36 per cent support it.[41]"

Yes, the US are arseholes here.

Except that the Russians tried to arrange a deal whereupon Russian observers would be in place on US missile defense bases, to ensure they cannot be used against them. The US refused.

There's plenty of evidence that the Russians are genuine in their belief that this is a threat to them, and this has been a consistent position of theirs since the Cold War.

Paying doesn't mean anything. For example, Feist ruled that the contents of phone books can't be copyrighted. But that doesn't mean they cannot be sold.

Having an opinion doesn't mean biased. Rather, you need to show a conflict of interest, or some other thing that stops these people from looking at the issue objectively or otherwise clearly. The APS, when ranged against the massive conflict of interest of manufacturers of SDI systems and of congress proposing to build this, are relatively pretty damn disinterested. And they have the knowledge to present reasonable analyses that you can look at.

SDI was a bad idea in the 80s. It's a bad idea now. In place of 'biased', I suggest you use the word 'correct' instead.

If you are trying to defend Japan, maybe the Japanese should pay for it?

Do you know how Lincoln dealt with the British during the civil war?