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- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Trump and the Loyal Opposition
CBS News, when it's not fighting off nuisance suits from Donald Trump, has enlisted usefully in the drone wars, warning on Sunday night that U.S. bases could be attacked the way Ukraine recently attacked parked Russian bombers.
But let's face it, a serious U.S. rival won't provoke a confrontation just to blow up a few U.S. planes sitting on the tarmac. 'Decapitation strike' is the fear now dominating congressional hearings and Pentagon planning: blinding our satellites, using space-based hypersonic weapons. The goal would be to render the U.S leaderless while neutralizing a key tenet of deterrence. The U.S., after all, needs to be able to know who hit it to deter such an attack.
