re: #2 Yashmak

It was my impression the primary purpose of the missile defense was against single or few missiles fired from rogue states like Iran…not against a mass launch by a power like Russia.

As such, the point made in the open letter is apt.

re: #1 LGoPs

I have never understood the Left’s aversion to Missile Defense. To me it is one of the most purely egalitarian systems ever devised. It protects everyone not just conservatives……….

Cold War Legacy Thinking by the left.

During the Cold War, deterrence was based on MAD.

A fully deployed missile shield system who have changed the equations of nuclear strike, and counter strike. MAD predisposed first strike and then counterstrike with the resulting annihilation of both sides. Missile defense made US survival of a first strike by the Soviets *quote* “survivable” *unquote* and gave the US free reign in counterstrike, it was gave the US the possiblity of first strike and making the Soviet counterstrike *quote* “survivable” *unquote*.

Remember the left was big into “Nuclear Freeze” unilateral US freezing of deployment and new weapons. The poor USSR was being bullied by the US, and the US should make the first moves, missile defense was more proof of this.

They don’t see missile defense as defensive, missile defense is a shield which the US can hide beyond while being even more aggressive in the world.