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GINGRICH:

Finally, on defense it is vital that we protect American territory from missiles from terrorist states or from dictatorships. We need to be honest about the threat to this country. There are missiles today that can reach America and eliminate our greatest cities literally in 30 minutes. Some of those missiles are held by states that may not be favorable to us. Within a decade other countries that we know are not favorable to us are going to have similar missiles. Whether the weapon of mass destruction is nuclear or chemical or biological, we are faced with a tremendous threat in the next 20 years. The time to begin to defend America from that threat is now. Just as Britain had to have the foresight to build radar in the 1930's to survive the Battle of Britain, the time to prepare to defend ourselves is not when the crisis occurs, not when we are blackmailed, but now. And every evidence, I think, of every independent observer is that the threat is real, it is already here and that we should be building today a national missile defense system capable of protecting the United States, capable of protecting Europe and Israel, and capable of protecting our allies in the Far East, if necessary, so that no one who has a missile can think that with impunity they can blackmail the free countries of the world.