Shoot down the balloon
Tiana Lowe
Just days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to Beijing, the Pentagon announced that a Chinese surveillance balloon has not only entered U.S. airspace but has also been hovering over Montana since Wednesday.
Thankfully, the communist spy balloon is hovering over Montana, not Manhattan. The seventh least dense state in the nation, the Treasure State, has just seven people per square mile. The logical response to discovering the greatest threat on the globe has invaded national airspace would be to shoot it down immediately, which is what President Joe Biden reportedly proposed at once. However, the Pentagon pushed back on the president. More than 24 hours later, a tool of Chinese espionage remains over our sovereign land.
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What the hell? The federal government cleared the commercial airspace of the Billings metropolitan area but maintains that the balloon, which is above civilian air traffic, isn’t a threat to commercial fliers. Though the Pentagon considered shooting down the balloon, it is reportedly concerned about debris causing damage.
There’s an easy solution for this: Evacuate the area. Every moment a piece of enemy spyware remains over the free world, the worse for democracy. Biden’s initial instinct was absolutely correct, and 24 hours later, it seems inexcusable that the ground wasn’t cleared to fire at and destroy it.
This is a developing story, and we’ll surely learn new information that the Pentagon has already considered. But as of now, its reluctance to treat an enemy invading our borders like that, an enemy, looks inconceivable.
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