Dowd fulminated, of course, about the environment. Moron Dowd has no idea what is involved in the production of energy, but she is dead set against your use of any appliance that uses it. We will drill for oil whenever and wherever we please. This is the new liberal drumbeat. They want energy, but they don't want to have to pay for it or create it with oil, natural gas, or coal.
Reality is a foreign concept to liberals.
The Soviets tried to put missiles in Cuba and we faced them down because we had missiles of our own. Today, China is building missiles to point at our cities. So is North Korea. The former Soviets have plenty left over from the Cold War. Every nation wants missiles.