All your space are belong to us

If it isn’t one thing, it is another.

Last week, one of them was this

President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone “hostile to U.S. interests.”

The document, the first full revision of overall space policy in 10 years, emphasizes security issues, encourages private enterprise in space, and characterizes the role of U.S. space diplomacy largely in terms of persuading other nations to support U.S. policy.

Which led  Keith at the Northwest Progressive Institute blog, the people responsible for the network which provided the means for area leftists to harass signature gatherers for conservative issue Citizen Initiatives, to brand Bush a “Space Cowboy”.

In case US Middle East policy wasn’t quite belligerent enough, the Bush Administration has asserted its right to blow you out of orbit if you obstruct American interests in space. It’s a chicken-egg argument: Why would they assert the right to attack without the means to do so? Or why mention space at all as an American interest?

We’re well aware that W wants to conquer Mars and militarize NASA, but this latest assertion brings speculation that pre-emptive strikes in sovereign desert nations might give way to cosmic body-checks in space. The arrogance, the hubris of such a policy is stunning, of course, but this is the President who just took us back to pre-Magna Carta England by signing the Military Commissions Act into law.

I guess they must have missed it when China blinded our satellites a couple weeks back. No one would ever threaten us from space! It was a practical joke, surely!

And these folks want to be in charge of National Security?