As I read a variety articles that criticize President Trump’s Golden Dome defense of America, and especially the potential role of space-based defenses, I can’t but recall the same criticisms of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) . . . and Yogi Berra’s famous quips, and note that it’s just “Déjà vu all over again.”
Nowhere is this fact made clearer than in Bill Gertz’s excellent Aug. 19 Washington Times article, “China Blasts Golden Dome as Space Defense,” which also appeared as the Aug. 20 lead front page article.
I heard all the same arguments from many of the same critics over three decades ago, when I was President Reagan’s Defense and Space Negotiator with the Soviet Union, charged with defending his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
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