. >> thank you, i actually read your book and reviewed it for bob tyrrell's american spectator. it is an excellent book. there are a couple problems, and this is what you need to take into congress to be able to answer in doing this and i am sympathetic to your point of view that we need to do something. one of them is on missile defense, the kind of missile defense you need to knock down something coming off of a freighter is not the same as shooting a ballistic missile fired from north korea headed toward hawaii. the system we have now deals with the north korean event but something like the airborne laser, which is very far along development and has been cut in half in the proposed defense budget. the obama administration is precisely to have the kind of administration that would give you an opportunity to have -- cover a large area. if you don't do it then, the missile also, if it is headed 300 miles and going up like this, it will be a sending all the way, an entirely different kind of interception problem. the systems we have now are not designed to do that. two other quic