Well, I want to talk a bit more about the state of the system. I've honed in on the problem of the radar and the fact that it's acknowledged that there is no ability to discriminate. Experts like Philip Coyle say that there will never be such an ability to discriminate, but I also want to go back to the other side of it, and that's the interceptor missile, the so-called kill vehicle.
It has managed to intercept an incoming missile in prescripted circumstances. Well, should North Korea or another rogue state decide to embark on a suicide mission and launch a missile at North America, they are not going to provide the trajectory. Therefore, there will be significant problems 30 years down the road and billions and billions of dollars later, even with the kill vehicle. There have been a number of U.S. General Accounting Office reports saying that the current kill vehicle interceptor missile can't be fixed and that, essentially, an entirely new design is required, so I think we still have some serious questions there.
Again, I come back to the point that something being destabilizing is in the eyes of the holder. As for us saying that Russia and China need have no fears, it's their perspective that matters. We already have tangible evidence that both Russia and China feel that they have to hedge against the system. We are talking about the United States, after all, with its tremendous capability, so from their perspective, whether or not the system works now or whether or not the system is said to be narrowly focused, they have to be concerned that there might be a capacity to scale it up quickly. They can't sit back and do nothing in the hope that.... They can't just rely on the words of the United States.