Thursday, January 08, 2009 | 1:32 a.m.

Maybe If We Tried a Slingshot

by Molly Ivins

AUSTIN — — Y'all, this isn't gonna work.

North Korea is threatening to launch a long-range missile against us, and we're threatening to reply with an anti-missile missile.

Sorry to remind you, but our "missile defense system" does not work. Good old Star Wars flopped again when tested in 2004 — in fact, it failed to launch. Since then, several tests have been delayed or cancelled due to technical problems. Just because we spend $130 billion on a bad i ...

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