http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/03/north.korea.rocket.obama/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/02/north.korea.missiles/index.htmlThe Strategic Defense Initiative has been a political football ever since Ronald Reagan proposed the concept in the early 1980s.  At the time, it was another Cold War gambit; another way to tilt the battle of ideologies in favor of the capitalists in the West.  As time as gone on, it has morphed into several different things, depending on what politicians want to portray it as.George W. Bush made it a keystone to America’s defense against rogue threats.  After 9/11, it just made sense; we could no longer accept that rogue nations, and to a lesser extent rogue groups, would never have the capability to attack the American homeland from abroad.  And with missile development around the world growing, that threat has grown ever more real.Democrats in general have been against the ‘Star Wars’ plan from the get go.  Initially it was because of costs.  It is difficult to estimate how much the entire program has cost in the quarter century of the project, but estimates range anywhere from $150-150 billion so far, though experts seem to lean toward the lower numbers.  Also, during the end of the Cold War, Democrats were worried that Star Wars would alter the delicate balance of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), which in itself was mad.  Records from the Soviet Union now show that even the threat of the program scared the Soviets, because they knew long term their facade could not hold against such a shield.  Historians now accept that it was one component in the eventual fall of the communist empire.Later generation of Democrats then focused on the efficacy of the system.  During the Clinton era, missile tests were scuttled because Clinton felt it was a waste of time.  Whose missiles would we shoot down anyway?President Bush reignited the program even before September 11th.    After the terrorists attacks, it became a fait accompli; a miss...