THE THIRD WORLD BOMB

Iran is on the verge of making a nuclear bomb - and people are starting to get upset about that.

All I can say is ... "Welcome to the generation of the third world bomb(s)!"

Come on folks - we all knew this would happen - ever since WE invented the bomb. Were we really so silly enough to believe that the technology would not one day spread to countries where we DIDN'T want it to exist? Sure, we took steps to keep the technology from proliferating and those certainly played a role in delaying the spread of it. But you can't hold technology back - even in backward countries.

Everyone wants to know what we can do to prevent Iran from getting the bomb but - what solution are you going to find that also addresses North Korea? Hugo Chavez will have bomb one day. Castro - the dictator that refuses to die - will be making his own bombs one day. This is the GENERATION OF THE THIRD WORLD BOMB - WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Well, let me tell you. Do you remember a little program that Ronald Reagan began waaaay back in the '80's? A program that folks like Ted Kennedy scoffed at him for. A program that ALL Democrats claimed was a foolish pipe-dream?

A program that was CUT by Bill Clinton but ressurected by George Bush?

A program mockingly labeled by the Democrats as ... STAR WARS?

Well, that "Star Wars" program - which is actually BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE has managed to survive all these years since Reagan breathed life into it. Scientists no longer laugh at the idea of destroying a nuclear missile in mid-flight because this program has already proven that it can be done.

The U.S. already HAS a ballistic missile defense network - bet you didn't know that did you? The problem is - I wouldn't really describe it as a ROBUST one. U.S. defense planners have already concieved a large ballistic missile defense network that is global in nature and employs sea, air, land, and SPACE based components. Some of these components are in place NOW. But to complete the network - to make it really effective - we need to do something that Democrats have been unwilling to do since the days of Reagan. We need to put money and resources into it. We need to commit to missile defense as a national strategy to deal with (neutralize) the coming Third World Bomb.

No, ... missile defense does nothing to prevent a small suitcase-sized nuke from being smuggled into this or any other country and then detonated. And that's one of the big reasons that Dem's have never supported the idea. However, that's a completely different problem - in my opinion, it's a much simpler problem to solve from a technological standpoint. And we will have to solve it.

But we also need to address ballistic missile defense - and TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

We aren't going to stop Iran from getting the bomb. We aren't going to stop North Korea from getting it. We aren't going to stop Hugo Chavez and Castro from getting it any more than we were able to stop India and Pakistan from getting it. Nuclear proliferation is a global epedemic that requires a new strategy.

The U.S. and it's key allies should develop this nuclear ballistic missile defense. We should develop it - and demonstrate it's effectiveness to the world. And after decades of bashing from the Democratic party - we'll have to really prove that the program works.

But once we've done that - we should then announce that our nuclear deterent program has shifted from a philosophy of "MAD" (Mutually Assured Destruction) to a philosophy of "YAD" (YOUR Assured Destruction). Launch a nuke - we shoot it down and then pave your country in glass with our nukes that YOU can't shoot down. It's logical, once you demonstrate a nuclear hostility - we eliminate the immediate threat by shooting it down - then eliminate the remaining potential nuclear threat on the ground - and the only way to do that is by using our own nukes to bomb YOU back into the stone age.

Aquire a robust ballistic missile defense - and announce a "YAD" strategy - and you'll then have the Third World Bomb neutralized except for the small portable hand-carried threat. That threat can easily be neutralized by taking REAL control of our borders and using technologies to detect these devices before they're imported into our country.

That's the solution folks.