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