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U.S. Announces New Space Security Policy
hey! writes "The Bush administration has announced a new space security policy, which includes the statement that 'Consistent with this policy, the United States will preserve its rights, capabilities and freedom of action in space ... and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests.'" More from the article: "Eisendrath, co-author of a forthcoming book, 'War in Heaven: Stopping an Arms Race in Outer Space Before It Is Too Late,' says the United States is wasting its time. 'Defense Secretary Rumsfeld says we need to protect against a 'space Pearl Harbor,'' he says. 'But we're still the dominant power there.'"
Yes, it is retarded. It's not like there's not enough to go around, and trying to keep a monopoly on all of it would be impossible. There's just too much to keep an eye on.
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It'd be nice if warfare never reached space. Sadly that's rather idealistic and extremely unlikely to happen.
childish colonial imperialism and it's complete bullshit.
Er, no. It's about asserting the (very reasonable) right to make sure that someone who actually is imperialistic in their behavior understands that we and the other major players in space-based commerce, research, and security aren't going to allow actually hostile postures to threaten those activities. As usual, the other (mostly western, but also Asian) nations will get to act smug about the US's willingness to actually say and do the things necessary for such a deterrent while actually benefitting from not spending that money or artificial social friction cost themselves.
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I'll go with -1, but Ignorant (which is not the same as Stupid).
First of all, all the headlines (save for the last one, I don't know about that one) are from known left-leaning "mainstream media" outlets that show blatant media bias, and these are just more examples typical anti-Bush drivel... intentionally misleading, intentionally wrong, intentionally written to drive more anti-Bush sentiment.
Anyone that seriously believes that Bush (or the US for that matter) is trying to colonize space, or start a war in space, or do any of the other things implied by those knee-jerk, apoplectic headlines really needs to book an appointment with a therapist.
Last time I checked, he's not running for President again; it's tough to understand why the lefty-loonies are adamant to continue to campaign against him.
As for what feelings the rest of the world has for us... read very carefully, I'll put it in terms that cannot possibly be misinterpreted: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHOULD NOT GIVE A RODENT'S REAR END WHAT ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD THINKS OF IT.
Nor should any other country care what other countries think about them.
USA foriegn policy has worked in the past because of it's strength... NOT because the rest of the world thinks it's a "good guy" in the world. Doesn't matter what the world thinks.
Consider what North Korea is doing right now: does anyone in their right mind think that Kim Jong (Mentally) Il(l) cares about the USA? Is that nutball really going to stop developing nukes for any reason. Even it's best friend China is ticked at them, and yet they keep up with the nukes, while starving their own people to death. The North has no hope of beating anyone... but they don't care. They think they can force the world to cater to it because it has believes it may now threaten nuclear war if it doesn't get its way.
People (including myself) may not respect the nutjob running that place... but we respect strength.
The USA has no interest in colonizing space, but it surely has an interest in protecting the space above it's soil. Consider that in the past several months China has fired lasers into the sky to "blind" (if not disable) US satellites flying over it. China has made no secret it's intentions to ramp up it's space program, and for predominately MILITARY purposes.
The USA would be absolutely foolish not to do something with regard to space to protect it's own national interests. Naturally, those on the left by and large never will understand this.
What's completely chilish and BS is the left's desperation to grab political power at any cost... even to the detriment of US national security.
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Bullshit to you too, friend. I didn't say the Japanese didn't have an established navy, so your retort falls flat on it's face. Read a little more carefully before you call bullshit in the future.
The world is not a socialist utopia and plans should be made for all situations, including space. We live in a world that fucked seven ways from Sunday and you must be ignorant to that fact?
I say we dominate space so we can secure that our lack of dominance wont be used against us.
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