Thanks again, Donks
Via Reynolds, Austin Bay (who, while an Army reservist, worked in the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) says:
My BMDO experience underscored several truths missile-defense advocates and responsible critics acknowledge. Hitting a bullet with a bullet is a tough mission. The technology is expensive. You must test the technology, thoroughly. I also concluded removing 1972 treaty restrictions on space-based targeting would dramatically improve current and projected ABM capabilities.
The Bush Administration ditched the ABM Treaty in 2001. Thank goodness.
The politicos who opposed ABM development and worshiped that fossil called the 1972 ABM Treaty need to be damned in public.
That, and voted right the hell out of office — both those directly responsible for all the whining at the time about bidding goodbye to that relic, and those affiliated with the same party that still believes that each and every treaty is a worthy one, and that “peace at any price” is any more appealing than any other form of slow suicide.
I don’t even need to mention who it was that ensured North Korea would finally go nuclear in the first place, with — guess what? — a useless, damaging, blind-faith treaty, do I?
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