Posted by
JDComments on Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:09:05 PM
The recent Korean nuclear test is exactly the scenario Reagan was seeking to rob of importance by developing a missile defense system. Regardless of the Liberal hysteria at the time warning of a new arms race and the end of the world, missile defense has always been a hedge against rogue states acquiring a handful of weapons and using them to threaten and extort us, and the Russians and Chinese understood this, even if the Democrats didn't. Now that we are facing just such a possibility, even the limited defense Bush had been able to force down the Liberal's throats gives us at least a modicum of security which the naysayers would have deprived us of. Going forward, if the Democrats gain control of Congress, we can expect more roadblocks to be thrown up to siderail the defense system, and that is a very scary thought as there are now predictions that as many as 40 more countries may seek to acquire nuclear weapons in the coming years. The arguments will be based on technical terms, with the Liberals claiming it will never work and that we are wasting money [coming from a group that has funded more useless government programs than is imaginable, that is quite a rationale. I guess they have no sense of irony in addition to their other flaws.], but the truth is, it doesn't have to be perfect, it only has to remove the certainty that a missile will reach its target. Once this is no longer a sure thing, even a lunatic like Kim Jong Il will have to think long and hard before threatening to launch an attack. There are many reasons to oppose the Democrats in this coming election, but the fact that they have waged a campaign to undermine the missile defense program and to keep us hostage to the demands of tin horn dictators with nuclear bombs while they seek to pursue "negotiated" settlements with fanatics in the best tradition of Neville Chamberlain is one argument that is not getting the hearing it should. Lunatics do get control of countries, and as Hitler proved as he sat in his bunker and allowed Germany to be destroyed because it had "failed" him, they are capable of accepting and or inflicting Armageddon as a result of their megalomania. We have to be protected from this eventuality, and that will not happen with Democrats in control.