More NORAD Nonsense

General VanHerck also said yesterday that NORAD did have “domain awareness” of this balloon as it approached Alaska, but:

“It was my assessment that this balloon did not present a physical military threat to North America. . . And therefore, I could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile action or hostile intent.  From there, certainly, [we] provided information on the status of the whereabouts of the balloon.”

So, clearly, the Biden Administration had been aware of this balloon for a lot longer than it initially admitted. 

But what exactly is the criteria for determining that a spy balloon launched from communist China has no “hostile intent”? Maybe the head of NORAD should do a bit more reading. 

In 2018, communist China tested launching a hypersonic missile from a high-altitude balloon. The test was widely promoted by Chinese media at the time, but it has suddenly been taken down. I wonder why. 

Other articles have suggested that such balloons could be used as delivery vehicles for an EMP attack.

I’m sure Gen. VanHerck is a fine man. But I pray that he really isn’t so clueless. 

When Pearl Harbor was attacked, the United States had a huge “margin of error.” We had vast oceans as a buffer from our enemies. We had a growing industrial base. Time was our ally. 

But today, we have no margin of error. And the people leading us are not up to the task, beginning with the commander-in-chief, but it doesn’t end there.