Obama’s Missile Defense Gap

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Last week, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that the Obama administration had decided to upgrade U.S. missile defenses in the face of a growing threat from the increasingly truculent regime in North Korea. That seems like the least we can do given Pyongyang's declaration that it is prepared to launch a nuclear attack against us. Does Team Obama's apparent reversal of its past efforts to diminish our defenses actually represent much of an improvement? The 14 additional West Coast interceptor missiles won't come on line until 2017.  It will probably take even longer to put some on the East Coast.  And the administration's own plan for defending us from Europe has been scotched - to the Russians' delight. Thirty years ago this week, Ronald Reagan recognized we need effective missile defenses. Does President Obama? This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.