Defense Intelligence Agency assessment of current and future missile threats to the U.S. in 2025 – Public Domain

Over the past several months, the editorial board of the Washington Post has moved steadily to the right, endorsing greater defense budgets, the use of military force, and even making a case for the U.S. military to return to its largest air base in Afghanistan. In a recent editorial, “How to live in our nuclear ‘House of Dynamite’,” the Post has reversed a long-standing position in order to endorse the building of the Golden Dome national missile defense. The system could take more than a decade to build and require more than $1 trillion in funding.

The United States has already spent nearly $400 billion dollars for defensive systems over the past 50 years without any reason to believe a Star Wars system can be successful. The tests themselves have been conducted under careful conditions to ensure success and to avoid realistic scenarios that would not be assured of success.

The current defense budget already has carved out a modest down payment of $25 billion for a system that is not workable. The only certainty is that billions of........

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