Kim Holmes on 33 Minutes
The Heritage Foundation‘s Kim R. Holmes, Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, has a post up at National Review Online’s The Corner blog. He writes about the surprisingly short span of time it would take for our enemies to wipe out an American city with nuclear weapons: 33 minutes.
“Amazingly, some pundits say the threat of such attacks is farfetched, and our military can repel them anyway,” Holmes writes. “They are wrong. Though our capabilities have come a long way in eight years, they are not enough to protect all of America. It is morally wrong to suggest that the government should settle for protecting only some of us.”
As more countries acquire ballistic missiles, especially rogue countries like Iran and North Korea, the situation becomes even more dire. Holmes points out that most Americans understand the danger. Unfortunately, Barack Obama was been lukewarm on this issue. There seems to be no sense of urgency to build missile shields and to protect the homeland and our allies.
See our post from earlier this week, “33 Minutes on YouTube,” to view a two-minute trailer for a high-definition documentary titled, “33 Minutes: Protecting America in the New Missile Age,” produced by the Heritage Foundation. The film will explain the history of missile defense, the present global nuclear threat, and what the U.S. must do to protect itself and the world.
As Holmes notes, we’ve tried and failed to negotiate away the missile threat. There’s a good reason Iran and North Korea are called “rogue” nations.
Tags: ballistic missiles, Barack Obama, Iran, Kim Holmes, North Korea