Re: Star Wars Redux

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 15:33:57 MDT

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    --- Olga Bourlin <fauxever@sprynet.com> wrote:
    > ... the Pentagon believes that the struggle to control space will
    > form the next stage of a global arms race.
    >
    >
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/08/wspace08.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/06/08/ixportal.htmls

    It is an unassailable conclusion, given the recent space advances of
    China, the oppositionist attitudes of France and Germany, that these
    countries, which all have records of militarist agression and
    opposition to liberty, will seek to use space as a front against the US
    when they obtain such capability. Their only opposition is in us doing
    the same, first. To declare opposition to us doing it first is to ally
    oneself with nations who are enemies of the US, or may again be in the
    future, given their recent behavior.

    The article cited does have some falsehoods, though. The Space Treaty
    does not 'have a loophole for US spy satellites'. It doesn't say
    anything about any sort of observation of earth, and the US is not the
    only country with spy satellites, either, so the alleged 'loophole'
    would not only benefit us if it were there.

    Furthermore, the US never ratified the Space Treaty, so we cannot be
    bound to anything it says, anyways, nor can we be found in violation of it.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
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