[CHARLITE]

Reply by Dick McDonald:

Space Weaponry and the Fear on the Left

Have you ever heard of a war being won with a weapon you didn't have? Well the brain-dead surrender monkeys of left whine that we should just stop improving our massive capability and go sip wine on the left bank, like delusionists do. Today, Frances Fitzgerald of the NYT pens "Immaculate Destruction" warning about those crazy Republicans that want to be prepared to win wars, now and in the future. They intend on weaponizing space. They intend to keep ahead of the curve in the deterrence game. What has America become? Sane? Not according to Frances.

Now as a counter Frances is pushing Star Wars "defense". See, not offense, just defense. Reagan always seems to win in the end, doesn't he. Now he has the left trailing behind the wagon, eating dust advancing last millenium's strategy while Rumsfeld begins our journey into "Real Star Wars"; controlling our adversaries with unmatchable power and capability the unobstructed view from space provides.

Those who fear that space weapons will be employed anytime soon must realize that to use such weapons we would need an adversary. None appears on the horizon. China is too busy making shirts and pants and Russia enjoying its oil boom. So settle down. The atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Sixty years ago and then just to show the world what a nightmare looked like. Keeping your enemies afraid of you is part of the game. Unless you are the op-ed weasel of chicken heart (NYT's variety)who wants to disarm, grab hands and sing cumbaya as some Wahhabi lobs off your head.

Comments: RAMcDonald

[ClearCase_guy]

Yet the idea of putting weapons in space has its roots in American national mythology and in a strain of 19th-century strategic thinking that, curiously enough, seems quite close to that of the Bush administration.

Why (sniff!) my good man! It's not curious at all! Bush is a throwback. A primitive. Not nearly as sophisticated as a NYT reader. Or a European. No, no, I'm afraid he's a19th century man. Wants to bring back Jim Crow and all that, you see.

[Paine in the Neck]

Anyone who thinks that anti-sat weapons aren't already floating above our heads and targeted on US stategic satelites is stupid enought to be working for the NYT.

[Cicero]

I presume this is the same Frances Fitzgerald who wrote "Fire in the Lake," right up there with "A Bright and Shining Lie" as the worst piece of anti-Vietname War propaganda ever published?

Naturally, she won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for this POS.

The New York Times must be pretty worried if they are wheeling this leftist fossil out of the closet.

[Unam Sanctam]

How come the Left never makes any distinction between offensive and defensive weapons? Why is the Left so dead set against the US protecting itself from incoming missiles?