This would tend to move toward not showing weakness, by tabling military intervention.
I think in general Russia would like to overturn the results of the Cold War.
NORAD is simply a location that collect all the data from all the military installations. In other words, an intelligence gathering cite. They have no ability to do anything, only tell us there is a missile coming. I want our military to be able to do more than alert us that we're going to die.
Patriot system is a good system, but not for ICBMs. Remember, it was designed to shoot down aircraft, not missiles. When a patriot missile hits an incoming missile, is might blow it apart, but it can't destroy the warhead. Thus the warhead still falls to the ground and blows up. Apply that to nuclear warheads, and claim that's enough? No, we need a missile defense shield.
Like I said before, if we are not willing to use military force, the enemies will not listen to us. Europe and Hitler was an example. If you invade poland, we're going to do something! So he invaded poland. They didn't do anything... result? He kept invading.
Saddam was told for 10 years to disarm and he didn't. He was told to let the UN inspectors see the decommissioned weapons, he didn't. He was told not to support terrorism. He did.
I have no problem with diplomacy. But when diplomacy fails, military action must be taken.
