Sky Rockets in sight

I have been following the entire media blitz on North Korea’s possible launch of a long-range missile capable of reaching the United States and our Generals’ assuring the President a “slam dunk” as far as our capability to shoot it down should it enter American air space or that of our allies. Japan is sitting anxious wondering if it is true, that yes, America can hit a needle in a haystack with one of our super missile killers and the rest of the Asian world is taking a wait and see attitude as well.

It brought back memories of the first Gulf War in which we placed Patriot Missile batteries in Israel, assuring them that we had the star-wars capabilities of hitting a scud long before it hit an Israeli city. We all sat glued to our television sets when the air raid sirens would go off in Israel and we would see our undaunted reporters standing on a roof pointing to the sky. The cameras would pan toward the moon and we would see a fireworks display as the reporter spoke excitedly into the microphone that Yes, America had just shot down an Iraqi scud missile and the state of Israel was safe.

Then we would see the shots of the scud missile laying in pieces, Israeli citizens running around in gas masks and it did not really dawn on anyone at the time, but our missiles had not hit that scud, it had fallen to the earth, shattering into many pieces and thankfully it did not contain anthrax or even worse.

Long after the war when the History and Military channels began dong documentaries on the Gulf War we learned the truth, we had missed them by a mile, but hey, it looked good at the time and it kept Israel out of the Gulf War as planned.

Whether North Korea launches a missile or not is still up in the air, maybe, maybe not, it just may be all for show, we will have the answer any day now. I really hope that we have fine-tuned our missile defense system since then and if needed we can blow the sucker out of the sky. Then we will all have to wait and see if North Korea takes that as an act of war against them and uses that excuse to cross the 38^th parallel and we find ourselves in a war with our forces already stretched to the limit.

I think I will go visit Mamabear and Papbear they have a fall-out shelter.