Although it was shaping up, at least in my mind, to be one of the monumentally divisive issues of the Bush administration’s misguided strategy, the National Missile Defense program was lost in the hub hub of 9-11 and the invasion of Iraq. Lo and behold, what critics call “a flawed defense against the ICBM’s of yesteryear, not the suicide bombers and hijacked airplanes of the world since Sept. 11”, has quietly been placed online. — New York Times