President Obama’s recent decision to “overhaul” the Bush-era missile-defense shield for Europe was the most significant, but hardly the only, indication that the Obama national-security vision is skeptical of, and very likely actually hostile to, missile defense altogether. The president’s missile-defense request for the 2010 fiscal year is an outright cut of 16 percent — down from $9.3 billion to $7.8 billion. What’s more, the 2010 budget underfunds, delays, or outright kills core programs designed to protect our homeland.

It scales back...]]>