Apparently, I was one of the few to note the Obama decision to put 14 more missile interceptors in Alaska. Austin Bay comments on the missiles and the supine press corps:
In 2013, the Ides of March fell on a Friday. In Washington, D.C., 21st century America's version of a gaudy Roman circus, Friday is the day for dumping on our mute national press corps those large and inconvenient truths that embarrass the Obama administration.
Make haste, loyal White House press corps! Assassinate this story, and let the dark soil of weekend celebrity chatter and sensationalism bury its foul corpse. To quote our former secretary of state, Lady Macbeth, "Out damn Benghazi spot."
On Friday, the Ides of March, 2013, recently confirmed Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel quietly announced that the Obama administration would deploy an additional 14 Ground Based Interceptors (GBIs) long-range anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs). GBIs are the "long arrow" in the prophetic U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) very limited ABM system.
Given the left's history of opposing missile defense and President Obama's position as both the most leftist president we've had and his decision in 2009 to cancel Europe-based missiles (which was leaked on the anniversary of Stalin's invasion of Poland), you'd think this is a big deal. You'd be wrong if you assumed that's how our press rolls:
If you think 14 missiles simply wasn't a big enough number for today's trillion-dollar press corps, recall that in September 2009, 10 GBIs was an earthshaking bigfoot deal. That's when the Obama administration cancelled the Bush administration's carefully structured deployment of 10 GBIs to Poland. Those missiles were a critical part of a layered NATO ABM system designed to defend Western Europe against an Iranian missile.
And of course, our Left no longer derides missile defense as "Star Wars" science fiction. They may not like it, but The One will face little criticism from his base for spending money on missile defense. I guess I should be comforted that even the Obama administration can learn. But I can be appropriately disgusted with our press corps and our Left for gliding over the lessons learned.
