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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane: It’s Another Spy Balloon
What in the world is going on?
“President Biden, please get down to earth with Americans about the threats up in the air,” begged Ingrid Jacques for USA TODAY on February 13, 2023. Speaking for all of us, Ms. Jacques continued by quoting her mother-in-law: “Do I need to go to the basement?”
“It’s all getting a little too close to home,” Jacques wrote, speaking for herself, her in-laws, and everyone. “We need answers from Biden.”
“President Biden owes the country an explanation,” Jacques went on. “This latest incident marks the third object that had to be shot down over North America in three days — and the fourth since the United States took out the Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast Feb. 4 (after it was allowed to float across the country for a week, gathering intelligence as it flew over nuclear missile silos and military bases).”
“Are we in any danger of war?” the author continued in a tone of horror. “Should we expect these unidentified flights to continue? Are there any risks to commercial air travel? What does the United States plan to do to ward off these threats?”
All excellent questions which we all, including many elected officials, share. There are other questions as well: How long has this been going on? With satellites powerful…