If you need another reason to vote for Bush, it splashed down in the Pacific on Thursday. We've now had 4 out of 5 of our anti-missile "hit-to-kill" intercepts come out successfully. This is a validation of both Ronald Reagan's vision for a ballistic missile shield, and President Bush's brave decision to pull out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
Given that North Korea either has, or will soon have, an ICBM capable of hitting the west coast of the United States, it would require a stupidity bordering on criminal to oppose an ABM system for our country.
For an example of such stupidity, look no farther than Governor Dean. He's on record as saying that he'll re-enter the US into the ABM treaty when he's inaugurated. This, of course, overlooks the fact that the country with whom we entered the compact, the Soviet Union, no longer exists. (Though given that Dean still refers to Russia as the Soviet Union, maybe he's simply unaware of the situation?)
It also overlooks the fact that the only thing standing between us and nuclear blackmail by rogue states is such a shield.
Posted by Discoshaman at décembre 12, 2003 06:56 PM | TrackBack