GMD Intercept Success

On 5 Sep 2006 08:38:44 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Ed Kyle"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Jake McGuire wrote:
I guess we'll just disagree on this one. Hezbollah, as a non-state
actor, could manage to launch a bunch of artillery rockets at Israel
because they were cheap, and precisely because they didn't cause really
serious damage. Non-state actors don't have the ability to scrounge up
ICBMs, ..

I suspect that ICBMs will become more affordable, relatively
speaking, for U.S. adversaries in the future. The U.S. economy
is steadily weakening, relative to much of the rest of the world,
as the U.S. fritters its dollars away on more and more on
imported products.

How is that "frittering away our dollars"?