From Human Events Online:
'Star Wars' Critics Stay Silent
by Robert B. Bluey
A day after Human Events editorialized in favor of a comprehensive missile-defense system comes a hard-hitting editorial from the Washington Examiner that asks, "Where are ‘Star Wars’ critics now?
"It's an important question to ponder, and as the Examiner puts it:
Noticeably absent are the voices of those who, since President Reagan first proposed such a system in 1984, have fought development and deployment of the missile defense system the U.S. must now depend upon in dealing with North Korea. These folks have claimed over and over that the system they derisively call “Star Wars” can’t possibly work, would be too expensive, would incite a new world arms race, etc., etc. Names that come to mind in this regard include senators like Joe Biden, D-Del., Jack Reed, D-R.I., Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Ted
Kennedy, D-Mass., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., and the Clinton-Gore administration that delayed and dilly-dallied with work on missile defense for most of the ’90s.
Kudos to the Examiner for calling out these senators -- as well as the bad decisions made by Clinton and Gore in the 1990s. As we learn more about North Korea's failed test -- that the missiles were actually aimed at Hawaii -- it's growing more apparent that the Democrats' policies of yesteryear could literally put our country at risk today. Remember that this November when you head to the polls to vote.
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