Weird Science from NYT

James Carafano / March 12, 2009

Only the New York Times op-ed page could offer two ridiculous and obviously contradictory statements in two succeeding sentences and believe it was making sense.

In “Defensible Missile Defense,” Professor Ted Postol declares that US missile defense “performance is unproven, it requires unending additional resources and it faces problems that cannot be solved with existing science. Russia, for its part, has long perceived missile defense as a threat to its security — a concern the administration chose to ignore, worsening tensions with Moscow.”

If missile defenses are scientifically impossible how could Russia possibly believe they are “a threat to its security.”

The fact is both Postol’s statements are factually wrong. Witness the testimony of Dr. Charles E. McQueary Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, the man responsible for testing the system. (more…)