Particularly noteworthy in this regard, is the decision to all but cancel the promising Brilliant Pebbles space-based interceptor technology at the very moment that the Israeli government and the Western European Union (among others) are recognizing the indispensibility of the sort of boost-phase defense afforded by such a system.
The United States is obliged by economic realities and plain common sense to utilize technologies now in hand that would permit such a defense and such a deterrence option on a global basis and at the lowest possible cost namely, space-based interceptor and sensor technologies derided as "Star Wars" by the Clinton Administration and virtually defunded by its FY94 budget.