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Hands Off the Heavens
By JOHN R. BOLTON and JOHN C. YOO
Published: March 8, 2012
OUTER space has become the next frontier for American national security and business. From space, we follow terrorists and intercept their communications, detect foreign military deployments, and monitor a proliferation of unconventional weapons. Our Global Positioning System gives us targeting and tactical advantages, spacecraft create image-rich maps, and satellites beam data around the world.
But instead of advancing American primacy in this realm, the Obama administration has wrongly decided not only to follow a European Union draft code of conduct regulating outer space, but also to circumvent the Senates central constitutional role in making treaties.
More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/opinion/hands-off-the-heavens.html
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Are apparently in favor of kinetic weapons?
They base the whole thing on speculation and one ambiguous announcement from the CFR.
What a pantload.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the Opinion page in today's Times. Both of these fuckers should be in Leavenworth making little rocks out of big ones for the rest of their misbegotten, rotten lives.