{"id":700754,"date":"2010-03-25T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/new-york-times-missile-defense-41372\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:44:50","slug":"the-new-york-times-and-missile-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700754","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times and Missile Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 03.25.10 08:00 AM posted by Baker Spring<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/missile_defense090603.jpg&quot;&gt;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/missile_defense090603.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;Yesterday, The New York Times ran an editorial titled &#8220;&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/24\/opinion\/24wed3.html&quot;&gt;Fixing Missile Defense.&#8221; Given the editors&#8217; clear track record of opposing missile defense, they must mean &#8220;fix&#8221; it in the sense of neutering it.*  Ostensibly, the editors are pointing to recent public complaints by the Director of  the Missile Defense Agency about poor quality-control practices by several unidentified defense contractors.* Predictably, the editorial calls for punishing the contractors.<\/p>\n<p>What is important here, however, is that the criticism does not stop there.* The editorial also warns against adopting a missile defense testing program that produces a long string of successes.* This warning has merit if it is intended to prevent the missile defense program from  failing to advance the technology.* It does not have merit, however, if it is designed to result in some number of test failures only as a means for justifying  the termination the program.* All weapons development programs that seek to advance the level of technology will experience failures from time to time.* In many cases, more can be learned from test failures than successes.&lt;spanid=&quot;more-29782&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/p>\n<p>In the end, The New York Times editorialists are offering their criticisms of missile defense in bad faith.* Simultaneously, they want the missile defense program to follow a testing regime that both  increases the risk of an occasional failure and punishes the program for a failure  by terminating it.* Clearly, the criticism is offered with only the goal of termination in mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/25\/the-new-york-times-and-missile-defense\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/25\/&#8230;ssile-defense\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03.25.10 08:00 AM posted by Baker Spring &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/missile_defense090603.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;Yesterday, The New York Times ran an editorial titled &#8220;&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/24\/opinion\/24wed3.html&quot;&gt;Fixing Missile Defense.&#8221; Given the editors&#8217; clear track record of opposing missile defense, they must mean &#8220;fix&#8221; it in the sense of neutering it.* Ostensibly, the editors are pointing to recent public complaints by the Director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Wiu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802316,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700754\/revisions\/802316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}