Welcome To An Obama America...U.S. Missile Defense Test ....FAILS

America has become the Land of Failure under the weak-kneed and incompetent President that it put into office 5 years ago - the failures under Barack Hussein Obama have been almost limitless from a Stimulus package for the economy that made things worse, to a host of green energy investments that all went bust, to "Cash For Clunkers", to a NASA program that now ensures America's only entry into space is hitching a ride with Russians or Chinese...and as America has seen this President intent on reducing the size of the country's military and voluntarily conceding nuclear weapon edges to enemies, now it is revealed that we cannot even get one of our missile defense interceptor systems to work.

But hey, Mr. and Mrs. America...even though your children have never been more at risk in this country than ever before, it sure feels good that you were instrumental in making those two elections "historic" isn't it?

The story comes from Times of India.

US missile defense test fails: Pentagon


WASHINGTON: America's missile defense system failed on Friday in a test over the Pacific, with an interceptor failing to hit an incoming ballistic missile, the Pentagon said.

The miss represented yet another setback for the costly ground-based interceptors, which have not had a successful test result since 2008.

The test's objective was to have an interceptor, launched from Vandenberg air base in California, knock out a long-range ballistic missile fired from a US military test site at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands.

But "an intercept was not achieved," US Missile Defense Agency spokesman Richard Lehner said in a brief statement.

"Program officials will conduct an extensive review to determine the cause or causes of any anomalies which may have prevented a successful intercept," it said.

The anti-missile weapon has run into repeated technical problems, with tests delayed after two failures in 2010.

The United States has 30 of the ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, at a cost of about $34 billion. They are supposed to counter the potential threat posed by North Korea, which has tried to develop long-range ballistic missiles.

The Pentagon wants to deploy an additional 14 ground-based interceptors to bases in Alaska, at a cost of about $1 billion, also in response to what Washington deems a growing threat from North Korea.

Some lawmakers also are pushing to open a new missile defense site on the country's East Coast, in case Iran or other adversaries obtain long-range missiles.

Critics of the missile defense program are sure to seize on the test result as further proof that the system faces insurmountable technical hurdles.