Because rigid adherence to out-of-date leftist talking points (and this one dates from 1983) trumps the safety and liberty of the American people:
Perhaps no part of the Obama administration’s planned Defense Department budget makes less sense than its effort to slash $1.2B from missile defense programs for FY 2010.
In light of the recent behavior of North Korea and the reminder that we face the prospect of a nuclear-armed revolutionary Islamic state in Iran, a group of Republican congressmen on the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday offered a series of amendments seeking to reverse the proposed cuts.
Sources on the Committee tell Pajamas Media that the Committee Democrats blocked the amendments — seemingly unaware that earlier in the day Obama had deemed North Korea’s nuclear ambitions to be a “grave threat” or that administration officials were reporting that North Korea could have an ICBM capable of reaching the U.S. west coast within five years. Minority Whip Eric Cantor told Pajamas Media: “As we watch what is going on with North Korea and the brutal regime in Iran, Democrat efforts to cut missile defense programs are not only misguided, but dangerous. As our enemies ramp up, it makes no sense to cut important defense and national security programs.”
This is complete madness – in leftist ideology, it was pronounced in 1983 (at the behest of Soviet propagandists and fellow travelers) that SDI would never work. In spite of the fact that the USSR was building as much SDI as they could; in spite of the fact that scientific theory showed a wide array of SDI options; in spite of the fact that technological developments over the past quarter century have only confirmed the validity of SDI; in spite of the fact that we’re dealing ever more with mad men possessed of nuclear weapons – in spite of all this, the left was never instructed to drop opposition to SDI. Obama, being the figurehead of leftism in America, was instructed to parrot opposition to SDI while Congressional Democrats, also under such instructions, just waited for the chance to have a President who would go along with cuts in SDI. And here we are.
I do wonder how anyone could ever be in opposition to anything which might prevent a nuclear weapon from reaching our territory – heck, if it cost $10 trillion and only stopped one nuke, it’d be worth it. Of course, it won’t cost that much and it will stop far more than one…in the end, it might stop them all and make nuclear weapons, as Reagan desired, obsolete. Certainly this is a worthwhile task to turn ourselves to…but nothing doing on the left; SDI was just Ronald “Raygun” trying to start a nuclear war (work with me here, I’m dealing with leftist thought – which really did state that a method to defend against nuclear weapons was actually a means of using nuclear weapons) and thus it had to be stopped (that stopping it would prevent the bankruptcy of the USSR just never made it through the fog of leftist “thought”…and that USSR is bankrupt and defunct in large measure because of SDI still doesn’t get through their thick skulls…that the opposition to SDI is now lead on the global stage by those very Powers which would become trivial on the world stage once we deploy a full SDI system also never seems to get past the “wall of separation” between reality and leftist). In the end, we’re dealing with people who are willing to be extraordinarily stupid in service of leftist goals – and the real trouble is that they have the power to stop SDI…
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