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Spring on Missile Defense

June 2, 2004 :: Washington Times :: Analysis

Baker Spring of the Heritage Foundation writes in the Washington Times on the cheap shots Democrats are taking at the administration’s missile defense efforts. It is easy to criticize something for not being perfect, but a lack of perfection is no reason to not to do the best one is able.
        Opponents of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative often made the argument that if missile defenses are not 100% effective, no defenses were better than some. The same logic is being continued today. But, as Spring notes, the moral and logical bankrupt of the argument for the opposite position, that of mutually assured destruction (MAD), that “In vulnerability, there is virtue,” cannot and must not be the guide for our defense policy. (Article)

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