Here is an interesting and informed post regarding North Korea’s imminent missile launch. It’s amazing how, these days, we have a missile defense system and can reasonably expect it to work. This wasn’t the case that long ago, and for those of us with extraordinarily long memories might remember back in 2000, whether or not to fund missile defense research was a controversial campaign issue. Al Gore and the serious people of the world pooh-poohed the idea, regarding it as fanciful that we could ever do such a thing, thus research then was just wasted money.
George Bush, though, and some of us fellow knuckle-draggers thought in more simplistic terms. “Government should defend the people. Shooting down other countries missiles is better than letting them hit us. If we never fund this research, then we’ll never develop the technology to do this.” Those were my thoughts at the time.
Well well well. Here we are in the distant future of 2009. We don’t yet have flying cars, but we do have the ability to shoot down another country’s missiles. And, whadyaknow, one of those “rogue states” the idiot Bush talked about in 2000, a member of that “axis of evil” the moron Bush talked about in 2002, appears now to have the ability to make an atom bomb, and appears ready to launch a long-range missile over one of our closest allies toward us.
I remember back in 2000 being simply flabbergasted that some people opposed investment in missile defense. I hope some of those people will now look back and realize where they went wrong in their thinking.
P.S. Do also remember that missile defense only came to pass because the unilateralist cowboy Bush abandoned the ABM treaty, something that brought about much outrage from the left but seemed fairly commonsensical to many of us.
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