Middle Class Populist

While I am proud to be a Liberal here is one point where I part with my PC Liberal friends. I believe that the Strategic Defense Initiative is a worthy program and goal for our national defense! To believe otherwise is literally “MAD”! During the cold war our national defense deterrence was based on the doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction”, or “MAD” for short. Our planet and the human race’s future depended on both sides not loosing their cool and worst “misinterpreting” the other side’s motivation or intention.

MAD worked if our enemies did not have their factual judgment clouded by ideology. For example:

• If the USSR was an Islamic Fundamentalist state and they believed that dying was the way to paradise then MAD would not work.
  
• If our opponents believed they could withstand a nuclear attack and could come out the stronger in a post WWIII era then the deterrence of MAD would be undermined. Something we have to consider when facing the Chinese with over one billion people. They have a history of losing millions for the sake of their regime as during the Maoist forced collectivization of farms.

There are those in this nation, who like the religious right with their “collective masochism” concerning the so called “Fall of Man” in the Garden of Eden and their religious doctrine of “Apple Theodicy”, argues that man is deserving of punishment. Today’s advocates of “Original Masochism” are not religious but secular. They misuse ecology to argue that man deserves to be made extinct and punished. No I am not arguing that global warming is not real because it is! But these PC liberals take extra delight in wallowing in cultural masochism!

As one commentator on the “McLaughlin Report” phased it concerning ecology, “Jimmy Carter’s idea was to wear a sweeter in the winter and to turn off the Christmas Tree lights”! Americans will never accept a lowering of our standard of living! I am a Liberal and yet I am for the “Strategic Defense Initiative”. Why is it that liberals can toy with the idea of huge “solar collectors” in space that can precision beam energy back to earth without radiating and destroying our cities in an accident, yet cannot believe we can shoot down a missile? Apparently the Chinese have already tested anti-satellite weapons against us as mentioned before in this blog!

Our nation preserves freedom because our military has a deterrent capability against the unsavory element of our planet! I disagree with the Neo-Cons in that I believe we are wasting our deterrent in Iraq when we should be winning in Afghanistan! Freedom does not come freely! Would we want our planet to be subject to the threat of extinction from nuclear war? If we are to prevent this while the Chinese continue their build up we must develop the SDI or “Star Wars” technology and insure that CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS to not sell out America by selling our technology abroad!

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