Israel
has again successfully tested its Arrow 3 missile-defense system, which, when
operational, will (if necessary) intercept enemy rockets above the atmosphere. This
sounds very much like the Strategic Defense Initiative, which has been
envisioned for some three decades here in the USA but which, because of
opposition by leftists who evidently would rather leave this country
defenseless against long-range missiles than admit that Ronald Reagan was right
in this regard, has made no progress beyond tests that validated the premise on
which the concept is based. Israel's
enemies may live closer to her than ours do to us, but it sounds as though that
country will be a better place to live than the USA when the next major war
begins.