How long do you suppose it will be before the United States finds itself being hit with missiles?

Question

Many here in the U.S. have, what I think, a very false sense of security. How long before we face watching our buildings and people here in the states go up in flames like what is happening in the middle east? Or do you feel we should feel secure and why?

Answer 1

NORAD makes me feel very secure and in the end it is all God's will and nothing you or I could ever say or do matters in the grand scheme of things.

Answer 2

Has our missle defense system ever actually been activated, fully? Not that I am aware of. Remember "duck and cover" excercises in grade school? What the hell was that all about? Simply this. I don't think anyone is truly ready, no one knows for sure if the missle defense system will be successful, and no one is anymore secure than they were ducking under those school desks. It's a question of keeping the public from a pandemic of panic. That's what it is really all about... Feel better??? That's good. Now go take some Tylenol PM and get a good night's sleep.

Answer 3

If you are a Bushite, your question should bring you to put yourself in the shoe of those living in Iraq in the last three years. You're afraid of something that may or may never happen here, while it's become a way of life over there thinks to W. Anyway, so long as US foreign policy continues the same path, there is no telling when. I also think that, your apprehension, although understandable, is a byproduct of the administration's fear tactic in an election year. Have we noticed how soon after the 2004 election the rainbow coded alarms have stopped?

Answer 4

4 years 9 months 5 days ago we were hit by guided missiles it was called 9/11, some HAVE forgotten. Shame on them. We were hit by missiles December 7th 1941 at Pearl Harbor, that must have slipped the minds of some, but I understand. Most insultingly of all are the dimwits who bash OUR military and OUR president in a time of WAR!! They should renounce their citizenship and join their Friends and serve Bin F'ing Laden himself.

Answer 5

I honestly think that the U.S. military strenght is being tested. And other countries are challenging this democracy of ours. The U.S. is being tested in the sense that we're spreading ourselves and military resources too thin.

With the world being in a crisis, there are many hats that are being thrown into the fight. However, this administration threw out its thinking cap, when it decided to put U.S. citizens in harms way. I really feel that we are not safe and will never get back to what we called normalcy. And since we are put into a position of being targeted by other countries and terrorist, our liberty, our rights and our democracy will now have to be adjusted and amended, in order for this country to be able to withstand the aftermath of such attacks.

Answer 6

50-100 years...we have far too many anti missile systems that we won't get HIT, now being attacked..10-15 years maybe less depends on how much technology a few of these countries can get a hold of. but it'll be a LONG time before we get HIT.

Answer 7

It is highly unlikely that we will be attacked by missiles anytime soon, mainly because missiles are easily tracked--that is, it is trivial to identify the attacker. Any nation that attacked us would pay a heavy price, and they would know it.

What we really need to be concerned about are attacks by other means, which cannot be traced. Terrorist attacks of various kinds; bombs in shipping containers, hardly any of which are inspected; attempts to disrupt our energy, communication or transportation infrastructure; and so on.

There are many, many ways to attack that cannot be traced, or at least cannot be traced to another nation.

Answer 8

agreed....i mean if some people with weapons can get on our planes, then hijack the plane and crash it into WTC. then i say anything can happen.....but some how i don't think we'll be in the same condition as middle east....what we did to middle east is horrible...most cities are not even recognizable any more which is really bad because a lot of civilians died and there homes got burned... you know what they say "What goes around comes around"

Answer 9

We need the Missile Defense Shield.

Answer 10

Don't feel secure. On 9/11, airplanes were hijacked and used as missles to strike the USA, and it worked.