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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
It's al Qaeda in spaaaace
It's amazing that weeks before the elections that are showing all signs of a giant Republican spanking that Bush continues to show he is living in another world. In his world, al Qaeda is going to attack from space.
I realize that the PNAC conspiracy theories are a bit of a joke, but doesn't this sound like the whole marines in space provision it talked about? Why are we interested in militarizing space? Are we seriously concerned we're going to be battling the Chinese on the freaking moon as opposed to, say, the Taiwan Straight? This idea that there is some way that having a military presence in space will prevent attacks on satellites in case of war is also idiotic. They need to militarize space to protect our satellites now? What, exactly, would they propose to do if the Chinese were interested in striking satellites with missiles or some electronic attack on satellites? The idiocy, it blinds me. |
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President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone "hostile to U.S. interests."
He is soooo trying to get some Bush Doctrine going into the history books.
This is just simpleminded justification for militarizing space and attacking space based economic assets of the enemy. The right to launch a satellite will soon be viewed like the right to develop nuclear energy is now.
10:01 AM, October 18, 2006
It's easily understandable - it's all about
hegemony. Sigh ... what else is new?
11:24 AM, October 18, 2006
I think we’re all forgetting just how cool space marines would be, I mean, come on! Space Marines. Just think of the recruiting power of those commercials.
11:58 AM, October 18, 2006
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