Individual Liberty—Progress—Humanity—Ethics—Rule of Law
"...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties—if that is what they mean by a "liberal," then I am proud to be a liberal."
There has been a spate of articles in the media over the past week or so about the U.S. Air Force's interest in extending its bailiwick into near and cislunar space. It seems to them like the logical extension of high altitude aircraft and ballistic missile forces. They advertise on television to recruit men and women into their cyberspace defense systems. It seems that space is the key word for the graduates of that academy at the base of the Rocky Mountains where religious zealots in the faculty, administration, and student body harassed cadets into chapel for a good dose of religious fundamentalism.
James Carroll gives this rush to a new arms race a sober look this morning from his column in the Boston Globe. The only thing missing is the notion of the nuclear weapons multiplier and the multiplied consequences. China and Russia are players in this deadly game which, we should know by now, no one can actually win.
