Republicans, not too smart

The Pentagon’s $10-billion bet gone bad

Times: Expensive missteps have become a trademark of the Missile Defense Agency, an arm of the Pentagon charged with protecting U.S. troops and ships and the American homeland.
Over the last decade, the agency has sunk nearly $10 billion into SBX and three other programs that had to be killed or sidelined after they proved unworkable, The Times found.

Go through the article, the missile defense program has almost always been an expensive failure, usually because Republicans are fairly stupid.   I dunno what to do, Republicans are simply too stupid for much of anything.