OUCH! In the comments: "I remember when The Won sent chills down the legs of media-ocrities. Now, they realize it was just incontinence."

MISSILE DEFENSE CRITICS should check their facts. Uzi Rubin, founder and first director of the Israel Missile Defense Organization, responds to George Lewis and Theodore Postol’s paper "A Flawed and Dangerous U.S. Missile Defense Plan,” in which Lewis and Postol argue that simple countermeasures can easily defeat the defensive interceptor missile.

[Countermeasures] are and will remain a real hazard for any military system, be it missile defense, air defense, tank defense or ship defense. There is nothing special in missile defense that makes it more sensitive to countermeasures than any other tool of war, from bow and arrow (interlinked shields) to RPG (reactive armor). The "Wizard War" between weapons and countermeasures is age-old and will continue indefinitely; the winner will be the side that keeps one step ahead of its adversary. In the minds of the "countermeasure culture" proponents, it is the U.S. that is always the loser. It is left for the talent of genuine experts in the U.S. defense industries to prove them wrong.

As I commented here, an imperfect defense is still better than no defense. And an imperfect defense can be improved.

AMERICA’S NEW CULTURE WAR: free enterprise vs. government control.

This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, gays or abortion. Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country's future. In one, America will continue to be an exceptional nation organized around the principles of free enterprise -- limited government, a reliance on entrepreneurship and rewards determined by market forces. In the other, America will move toward European-style statism grounded in expanding bureaucracies, a managed economy and large-scale income redistribution. These visions are not reconcilable. We must choose.

Read it all.

WHETHER WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT AS A WAR OR SOMETHING ELSE, there are indeed two irreconcilable worldviews at work in the United States today.

Link from Instapundit.