Missile Defense Test Fails

Hey kids, what's that mushroom cloud doing over your city? Guess that missile defense system that the president spent your generation's education money on just failed. No harm trying, though, right?

Yeah, right, it only encourages nations to find technology that works even better, spurring an arms race that must be paid for somehow - usually by the export of technology to, ahem, unsavory people who may use it in a manner not easily deterred in bilateral state-to-state diplomacy (Al Qaeda, perhaps?).

So, the nothing ventured, nothing gained idea is actually way wrong. This attempt by us has probably already spurred Russia and China - at a minimum - the attempt to foil the system with even better technology on their part. Oh well, at least we're out of that annoying and burdensome Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty that served us so poorly for the last 3 decades.

Have no fear, though, I'm quite sure Bush will hold a press conference tomorrow heralding the great success of missile defense, and holding it up alongside Iraq as among his administration's great accomplishments. And, our idiotic electorate, or at least the 70% who voted for Bush and still believe that Hussein had WMD, will just cheer right along. Boy, it's great to live a life unencumbered by facts.