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Why so many of us were wrong about missile defense
Writing about military spending is difficult.
This reinforces the basic narrative, and the critics seem to have good technical reasons and credentials, so the pundits declare that the program is yet another boondoggle by America’s failing and overpaid military establishment. This, however, is a pretty terrible idea…Ballistic missile defense is, in short, not just a waste of money, but the tip of a wildly misguided intellectual iceberg — a whole worldview that radically misconceives the nature of America's interests and the contemporary international situation. The conservative movement is committed to an outlook that revolves around impractical solutions to unreal problems, and missile defense is just one more example to add to a pile including the invasion of Iraq, the decision to spurn Iranian peace overtures, and the effort to define the (necessary) struggle against al Qaeda in the broadest and most apocalyptic terms available.
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