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Nuke Me, Por Favor

North Korea's successful launch of a sixth ballistic missile the other day, close on the heels of their atomic bomb test, beggars the question: why does the left hate American anti-ballistic missile defense so? Or, as Barack Obama disingenuously calls it, unproven missile defense systems. This despite a long series of successful anti-missile tests. In fact, the left has screeched like Marburg-infected macaque monkeys for over two decades, even as the technology, and the umbrella of protection it provides, has expanded. Obama is of a sort: a shameful liar for the Cause.

It Won't Work!

There are several reasons. First, the seeds of the technology began in the early eighties during Reagan's first term, even as the Nuclear Freeze movement was gaining ground. This threat to marginalize the unilateral disarmers maddened that particular cohort of useful idiots so busily marching in the capitals of the West. Second, the left is quite keen on the concept of "equal outcomes". The fact that one side could neutralize the opposition incensed their sense of equality. "It's Not Fair!" being the cri de coeur of the leftist social engineer. Third, why, a ballistic defense umbrella simply meant to the left that the wrong fucking side would win. And that fact was too bitter a pill to swallow.

Star Wars!

In the early days of the Strategic Defense Initiative the useful idiots in the nonproliferation movement, heady on funding from the KGB, sensibly proclaimed that SDI was a violation of the ABM Treaty of 1972. Well, yes. And so? Reagan rightly ascertained, as did any truly sentient creature, that the Mighty Soviet Integral honored no treaty it could successfully circumvent. There was no honor among those thieves, therefore any treaty signed by Richard Nixon was regrettable, but non-binding on anyone. To be honest, the 108,000 Russian troops then deployed in Afghanistan rendered moot any reason to honor a pact with those filthy hegemonists. We were dealing with the roguest of states.

The well-funded useful idiots followed the KGB playbook carefully, in that they harped incessantly on the space-based initiatives of SDI, rather than the land and sea based platforms. This allowed them to halloo, like so many yokel yodelers, that "It won't work!" and "It's too expensive!" Perhaps it wouldn't work. but the very existence of the space-based platform, whether feasible or not, and the large dollars thrown at it, was the monetary gauntlet that caused the USSR to implode. They were so busy trying to keep up with fricking lasers in space that we were able to develop Aegis and other ground/sea platforms.

It was a beautiful thing, really.

As for those Nuclear Freeze morons? They were never about nuclear disarmament. They never marched in front of the Kremlin demanding destruction of SS-20's. They were well-funded shitheels whose mission was unilateral disarmament for the West. I'm sure even they didn't bother to ask where the funds came from that paid for those protest excursions, and papier-mâché heads (yes, that gimmick is that old). But just as the left loves to invoke Vietnam without taking credit for the boat people, the killing fields, and the millions dead in indoctrination slave-labor camps across Indochina in the wake of their folly, so they never (and to this day) wonder where that sweet fucking money for them protests came from.


It's Not Fair!

Every pissant leftist decries the notion of equality of opportunity. Equality of outcomes is the Holy Grail of the progressive re-engineer. One cannot achieve an Eden of enchanted Eloi when some folks do better than others. The progressive income tax, affirmative action, a safety net so broad it would drown every dolphin in the Atlantic, such are the tools of the equal outcomers. So when a Ronald Reagan or a George W. Bush brings an assault rifle to a knife fight, the left is horrified by the most-assuredly unequal outcome of that fight. In fact, the unsteady balance of power wrought by Mutual Assured Destruction actually had a perverse calming effect upon the left. So long as the Soviets were able to make incremental gains in places like Angola, Nicaraugua, and Grenada, of course. That balance of power served the dual purpose of providing a Potemkin Village for the viability of the Soviet model. If the USSR was a superpower, why, that proved their model worked!

The left grudgingly accepted an America that was demonstrably equal to the Russkies. They really had no choice, despite their most concerted efforts to betray it. Just as the progressive educator thinks all playground activity should end in a tie, so it was unacceptable for America to damage the communists' sense of self-worth by kicking thier fucking asses in the high ground of space.

Our Side Will Lose!

With the success of a missile defense system comes the awful truth to the leftists that their side would lose. Forget the fact that missile defense is just that, defensive by nature. There is nothing aggressive or bellicose about it. Hell, Bush wanted to share the technology. One could of course make the claim that deploying missile defense in the near past in Poland or the Czech Republic was a provocation to the Russian sphere of influence, however Putin's pushback was cheap vitriol aimed at the nationalistic impulses of the eternally moribund and defeatist Russian psyche. He knew full well the missiles were aimed at Iran, not Russia. Regardless, the operant component for the leftist then, and now was and is the horrifying specter of the failure of international socialism, and victory in the West.

The left gravitated, and gravitates, to socialism and communism as the mule rises to the gratuitous kick: even when all outcomes are equal, especially when all outcomes are supposedly equal, there remains the role for the elite. The leftist, nursed upon the sugar tit of academia, or the coffeehouse, is a ready and willing accomplice to any manner of atrocity for a place at the table with the upright pigs. Being an apparatchik is, verily, in the DNA of the leftist. Every leftist believes in the rule of the elite. Even Karl Marx didn't believe in the withering of the state. That was a sop thrown to the prole to entice compliance and obeisance. For the major personality trait of the leftist is to be the fucking scold, the preening moralist. To punish the successful (the quarterback, the prom queen). The success of missile defense over the last decade, in test after test, has been one of the reasons the left has become so unhinged. Our side is losing. We must stop that at any cost.

It takes a truly miserable, wretched, and disgusting individual to look at a defensive measure that would protect 300 million fellow citizens from the horror of nuclear holocaust and think that's just a bad idea. No: by any lucid or sane measure that is an incredibly outrageous, awesome, insanely fantastic idea. A fucking five year old could decipher that. But in the rarified atmosphere of the dilettantchik, we must hold ourselves open to nuclear strike, to terrible one-off Persian or Korean terrorist attack, if we are to maintain our morality.

Today it is North Korea giddily test firing ICBMs and atomic bombs. Tomorrow it will be Iran, and after that whomsoever the evildoers in Pyongyang, Islamabad, or Tehran feel like empowering with tincan dirty technology. My bet's on Indonesia, but it could just as easily be Somalia. Whoever it is will most likely be Islamist, of course. The leftist cares not, so long as it is an enemy of the U.S. It would be interesting to see how many of the proud liberals in the academy unfurl the prayer rug, or don the burkha, once the evil be done. To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, an apparatchik is an apparatchik is a weasily martinet.

As long as we're discussing rewards, what passes for a dacha these days, anyway? Probably the estates of Chrysler and GM executives, wrested by fiat and awarded to the same leftists who are counseling the elimination of funding for missile defense. I hope they understand the true nature of what they seek. An Islamist theocracy isn't quite the same thing as a sweet commie party gig. After all, buffing to high sheen the poor quality pigskin leather shoes of a Muscovite overlord would likely get one beheaded for a touching of the swines in the New World.