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US Ready to put Weapons in Space
An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian reports "America has begun preparing its next military objective - space. Documents reveal that the US Air Force has for the first time adopted a doctrine to establish 'space superiority'."
If this goes ahead, it will be in violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which forbids the militarization of space."
Not necessarily. Alcohol is a poison, yet almost nobody has a fatal reaction to it. When taken in moderate quantities its effects are noticable, but fairly harmless.
Just because a poison only kills one out of a billion people doesn't make it any less of one.
It doesn't exist because you can't go to war with a noun. It only exists insofar as the government tells you it exists. And they'll use it to justify anything they can. Whether it be the militarization of space or the invasion of Iraq.
Terror is a major threat that has been around for hundreds of years.
"Terror" is merely a tactic used by small organizations to fight powers too large to engage directly. It *has* been around for hundreds of years, and it won't go away by going to war with it. Going to war with "terror" is like pouring gasoline on a fire.
Those responsible (Al Qaida) are a large, coherent, independant group with clear motivations.
They are neither coherent nor independant. al-Qaida is a phantom enemy taking the place of Russia as the world's latest "major" threat. They aren't new. There is no reason why they should scare us now more than they did 10 years ago.
The media is responsible for creating the fear and justifying the spending, not the government
Apparently you missed the Bush campaign ad, for example, featuring wolves representing the terrorist threat. Or perhaps you've never heard Dick Cheney speak.
As was evident in the last election, many people see that Terror is a legitimate threat.
Because the Bush campaign spent so much money milking 9/11 for everything it was worth... politically speaking. Bush won because he played on people's fears... whether it be fear of gays or terror.
-matthew .
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
Funny, Webster's says "a substance that through its chemical action usually kills, injures, or impairs an organism."
Would you like to find me a reference in published literature for using "poison" for a substance that does not usually kill, injure, or impair?
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.