Well well, Rummy has been watching his Peter Sellers library too much lately. He wants to use ICBM's to deliver conventional weapons. Our man in the DoD Rumsfeld has started a 14 year program called Prompt Global Strike as reported at
Flight International. It says in part that
The US military has launched a 14-year project to develop a new conventional weapon that can defeat a heavily-defended major target, such as a weapons of mass destruction site, without warning and within hours or potentially even minutes of receiving an initial command.
I heard this reported last night on Air America Radio. Of course being liberal, they can't be reliable, right? So I checked other air industry sites and my lying eyes told me it was all too true. At
Spacewar it was reported as breaking news
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is developing an ambitious and highly controversial new preemptive strategy to try and counter the increasingly formidable measures that nations around the world are taking to protect their missiles from the U.S. ballistic missile defense systems now coming on line.
The new strategy is multi-pronged and is being developed by two of Rumsfeld's most favored and heavily funded institutions: U.S. Air Force Space Command and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
So they want long distance quick strike capabilities? Lets see... I need to call Russia, China, North Korea, Kazhakstan, Pakistan, England, France, Israel, and India and tell them that I am going to lauch a hypesonic ICBM but not to worry because they'll believe me when I tell them it has a conventional warhead on it. I better call Pakistan and North Korea last just before I open the launch code envelope, cuz next thing they'll be on Nextel callin' Osama to hightail it outta there. So calling the Nuke club to warn them negates the quick strike capability.
So then we launch a friggin ICBM at Iran or Syria and guess what happens next