CLINTON'S MISSILE PLAN SACRIFICES AMERICA'S INTERESTS
MARINA DEL REY, CA-In his meeting last Sunday with Vladimir Putin, President Clinton failed to gain Russia's permission for the U.S. to build a national defense against nuclear missiles. The primary obstacle to a national missile defense system is not the Russians' diplomatic objections, but the bizarre moral objections raised by critics within Clinton's own party, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute.
"Administration officials' qualms center on the America's moral right to defend itself," said Robert W. Tracinski. "This shows that the Clinton Administration has little understanding of the government's fundamental responsibility to defend its citizens from any threat of foreign aggression-including nuclear attack."
Tracinski noted that the common element of all the objections to a U.S.-missile defense system is the notion that America has no right to assert or enforce its own interests. In short, Americans should be willing to sacrifice their interests, and even their lives, for the sake of others.
"This anti-American viewpoint is cloaked in a series of ad hoc 'practical' objections," said Tracinski. "These objections include: missile defense is technologically unsound, a missile defense shield might not stop every incoming enemy warhead, and missile defense is too costly.
"The real fear of missile-defense opponents is not that such a system would fail, but that it would succeed. They fear it would give the United States too much power, making us strong enough to assert our interests in defiance of the rest of the world."
Tracinski said that the opposition to a national missile defense takes the foreign policy of self-immolation to its logical conclusion, demanding that America give up the task of self-defense altogether and leave its citizens exposed to the threat of total destruction-something Administration officials seem eager to accomplish.
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