Sometimes really dumb ideas never die. When some people can profit from them, they will be resurrected and recycled. Take missile defense, for example.

Being safe from an enemy attack is something anyone would want, especially given the devastation nuclear weapons cause. Any American born after August 29, 1949 has not spent one minute of their lives free from the nuclear threat. That is the day the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear bomb. And that threat is never going to be eliminated, regardless of what the politicians say.

That reality does not slow down the fearmongers for a minute.

It didn’t work then

Take for instance a bizarre video posted in June by the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. In it, she said she had visited Hiroshima and was deeply moved by the

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