Thirty-Three Minutes!

Via Andrew, here is a fearmongering Heritage Foundation ad pushing the tiresome advocacy of missile defense, which dovetails with much of the criticism of the new (expanded!) Pentagon budget. What the ad somehow manages not to mention between its homage to the 1964 campaign ad “Daisy” and an unfortunate Thatcher cameo is that neither North Korea nor Iran currently has the capability to build a missile that can reach the United States. It also seems to ignore that our government has a nuclear arsenal that would be used to retaliate against any such WMD missile attack with devastating effect on the state foolish or self-destructive enough to launch such an attack. Please, someone explain to me why any of these people should be taken seriously on matters of national security.