August 30, 2016
In a Dangerous World, the Administration Must Fund Proven Missile Defense Systems Now
By Robert C. O'Brien
The world is in crisis. Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea and grand pronouncements about its right to intervene militarily in any nation where there are Russian speakers reminds us of the dark days of the late-1930s. China has declared vast swathes of the Pacific Ocean in the South China Sea and the East China Sea to be its sovereign territory in disregard for international maritime law.
Beijing ignores the recent ruling of the UNCLOS Tribunal and continues to build a “great wall of sand” in the South China Sea and surrounds the Japanese-Administered Senkaku Islands with a fishing fleet of “little blue men”, the counterpart to Russia’s “little green men” who roam Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova. North Korea continues to be, well, North Korea.
ISIS has established a Sunni jihadi caliphate in Iraq and Syria that is the size of England. At the same time, Iran’s archipelago of Shi’a terrorist proxies stretches from Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea to Yemen on the Arabian Sea.
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2016/08/30/in_a_dangerous_world_the_administration_must_fund_proven_missile_defense_systems_now_109768.html
