Shoot down the balloon

Just days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 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. However, the Pentagon pushed back on the president. More than 24 hours later, a tool of Chinese espionage remains over our sovereign land.