Star Wars, Give Me Those Star Wars!

US Navy Shoots Down Satellite


I recall back in the 1980s when President Reagan started the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), aka Star Wars, in an attempt to protect the USA from nuclear missiles. The geniuses on the left smugly asserted that it would never work. I'm not clear as to how they were able to evaluate some technology that had not yet been invented. But it seemed to me that we should make an attempt to protect ourselves in the event someone throws a nuclear missile at us. I guess the lefties wanted to depend on the good intentions of a tyrannical government that had slaughtered millions of its own people.

Another development that seemed significant to me at that time was the fact that the Soviets were very, very concerned about Star Wars. I think it was that, and Gorbachev's bizarre behavior during the negotiations at the Reyjavik summit, that finally brought them to the bargaining table to negotiate in good faith a meaningful arms reduction agreement.

Bill Clinton, in his infinite stupidity, canceled all research on the SDI during his administration. But W brought it back and now we are beginning to see the results of the research bear fruit.

Another important fact to note. The people who so confidently predicted in the 1980s that SDI would never work are the same group who talk about the scientific "consensus" that human CO2 emissions are causing global warming.