Come on!

How can you write hundreds of articles on "missile defense" without noting that the technology for shooting down long range missiles is a fantasy at this point?

There are some good projects for short range missiles, and point defense in its various forms is somewhat effective and pretty plausible, but the reality of shooting down a long range missile with a missile has been a dismal failure even in the very "controlled" (ie partially rigged) tests.

There's a decent case that missile defense might work with directed energy weapons, but, thus far, practically generating a powerful enough pulse still seems decades away.

If I got to make up imaginary weapons systems, I could win arguments, too.