Are there any sane Democrats left on missile defense? Is there a Daniel Patrick Moynihan ready to protect the United States, anywhere in Congress? Rep.  Ellen Tauscher, the Chair of  the House Strategic Forces Subcommittee, certainly wants to sound sane and  sensible, so when she killed off two US missile defense bases this week she cited plausible reasons: Tauscher just wants to make sure those defenses really work before building them. Now take a look at the bases Rep. Tauscher just killed. The Federation of American Scientists provides this stunning map of the flight path of Iranian missiles to the heart of Europe.  Even today,  Iran's Shahab-4 missiles can easily reach Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, not to mention Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and all the Sunni Arab nations of the Middle East. They need only five or ten minutes' flight time, going less than the distance from Hawaii to California. The planned defense bases would have...(Read Full Post)