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Reagan's SDI Deployed Against Iran, North Korea
Democrats and their media minions derided Ronald Reagan back in 1983 when he announced the Strategic Defense Initiative. "Star Wars," they called it, claiming it would never work.
Two decades later, however, U.S. defense planners are now turning to Reagan's system as the last, best line of defense against a nuclear missile strike launched by the madmen running Iran and North Korea.
Reports London's Financial Times: "In a move that is raising hackles in Moscow, the U.S. is proposing to install an anti-missile defense system in central Europe to counter any future attack from a nuclear-armed Iran" The Pentagon, says the Times, is planning to install 10 anti-missile interceptors in central Europe over the next five years. Each interceptor will contain a 155-pound "kill vehicle" designed to intercept enemy missiles as they careen toward London, Paris and Berlin - not to mention New York and Washington, D.C.
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The anti-Iranian SDI deployment isn't just a pipe dream. An anti-missile system modeled on Reagan's vision is already under construction on the U.S. West Coast - with an eye toward heading off a North Korean nuclear attack. The Times reports: "So far, nine interceptor rockets are in place at Fort Greely in Alaska, and two more at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California." Along with Reagan, President Bush deserves credit for pulling the U.S. out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty four years ago, making the ultimate deployment of SDI legal. With Democrats salivating over the prospect of returning to power, perhaps now would be a good time for a few of them to acknowledge how valuable the program they sought to kill has turned out to be.
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