Today was a travel day, so I didn’t have a chance to say much this morning about the G.I. Joe movie, which I saw last night. But I wanted to expand on one of my points. The movie contains all kinds of military equipment from high-tech fantasyland: nanotech bombs, robocop uniforms, etc. It’s the kind of movie that features a vast, secret lair full of bad guys beneath the polar ice cap.

But for all the gee-whiz gadgetry, what’s the one thing that nobody seems to have? Missile defense. Yet our country already has built a rudimentary system. It will grow more robust if the Obama administration reverses course on plans to slash its budget.

I guess Hollywood thinks personal accelerator suits are more likely a part of our future than ABMs.