Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban

eldavojohn writes "Obama's proposed ban on space weapons is a complete 180 from George W. Bush's stance on them. Space.com looks at the two sides of the issue and quotes Michael Krepon explaining, 'The Bush administration rejected space diplomacy. We refused to negotiate on any subject that could limit US military options. We have a shift from an administration that was very dismissive of multilateral negotiations [as a whole], to an administration that is open to that possibility if it improves US national security.' You may recall discussing the necessity of space based weapons and Michael Krepon from 2005."

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Re:Childish

[flitty]

Ah slashdot, one of the places where restriction of certain types of space weapons can be compared to Neville Chamberlin and the Holocaust. You people do realize that we spend more on our Military than every other country combined, right? We spend 7x what China does. Lack of space-missiles is pretty tame. Here's a liberal point of view on how far our military spending is outpacing all other nations.

Re:Childish

[tuxgeek]

"Take this thread altogether and it appears that Obama is working to disarm the USA altogether. Whatever it means I think 'we the people' are owed an explanation that makes sense. When it _looks_ like our defenses are coming down, and troops are being deployed on home soil I think it's high time to be worried; high time to be asking the Executive "WTF are you doing?""

You are again jumping to conclusions unwarranted. Your assumptions are off in deep right field or those daily spewed by Fox news.
Obama has only spoke of honoring space based weapons treaties. Not a complete dismantling of the US's entire nuclear stock pile.

Please change the channel off Fox news and research your own facts instead of letting some radical politico talking heads tell you what to think. Also, don't listen to Rush Limblaugh. Rush, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and all the other whack jobs have been sniffing glue for years and their brains have totally died out. All they have is distorted illusions of reality now.