Stupid Missile Defense

In the beginning some people think of this as a good idea, but clearly this is due to a combination of poor information and a lack of pondering the issue. Simply put this is a dumb idea! See here for more:
The Globe and Mail

The simplest argument is the one that states there are Boogie men out there trying to bomb us!?! Most people respond with it can't hurt! Well take a second to think about implementing this. Once you place weapons in space you have to communicate with your weapons. What if the Boogie man get a hold of your communications. He could bomb what you are trying to protect! Or more likely, what if a macro meteoroid (small piece of anything since things in space average 18000km/h+ a pebble can kill) hits some component and the weapons array fails. The list goes on. The fact is there are something you just have to put in perspective: you are thousands of times more likely to die in a car than in any act of terrorism. Not to mention the amount of money needed to put up defenses is so high you could simply buy thousands of friends worldwide by paying for their medicine and helping them build and infrastructure that they would be forever grateful! If the U.S. spent 1% of it's 10 billion/year of missile defense research (that real scientists have said it will not work already) you could build schools and hospitals for the people around the people who don't like you and so they'd eventually stop that's you since you educated and healed their both, cousin etc. But that's not the way the military industrial complex works. Well, Eastasia is starting to take shape so soon Oceania will have an "enemy/ally" to wage "war" with (it's a reference to 1984 by George Orwell, which for a political savvy humanist is like a rabbi reading the original Torah for the first time).