Thanks, Dave, for supporting my shrill, shrieking Cassandra imitation. What most frustrates me is the fact that neither McCain nor Palin have picked up on that Obama/Joe Cirincione position about missile defense. They picked Sen. Biden for a lot of reasons, but I’ll bet this one was right at the top of the list. Sen. Biden opposed the concept back in the Eighties and he is still, along with Sen. Levin and Sen. Fiengold, lobbying to get rid of it. There are powerful people in the U.S. and overseas who want this program GONE. And Obama is one of them.

He truly does not understand the world we are in. He thinks, like Biden, that ballistic missile defense makes the world more unstable.

Folks, we are in big trouble. I’m not comfortable at all playing this role of the worrywort Cassandra, because I know it casts suspicions on my personality. But I cannot remain silent when the lives of many millions of human beings hang in the balance.