Missile Defense Systems and Public Relations

The treaty-breaking US missile defense system, now in the news again in light of the North Korean missile test, is analagous to the Bush administration's policy's in general - that they will do whatever the hell they want, and deal with opposition as a separate, completely unrelated issue. Other countries build weapons to protect their soverenty from US aggression. In response, rather than reconsider the policies that jeopardize our security, they break more laws and spend billions on a missile defense system that is almost completely ineffective, making us far less secure than we were initially.

This is one of the central themes of Bush administration policy. If the public wouldn't approve of Bush's illegal policies, don't change the policies, just do your best to make sure no one ever finds out about them. If terrorists want to attack American citizens, don't address the reason millions of people around the world hate us so much, just do your best to kill or "detain" everyone that doesn't like us or may potentially not like us in the future. If violent crime is up, don't try to figure out why, just make sure to execute all of the criminals.