China Accuses US of Hypocrisy in Space
BEIJING - A leading Chinese newspaper has accused the United States of hypocrisy in criticizing other nations’ space ambitions while rejecting a proposed space treaty and firing a missile to destroy one of its own satellites.
The United States hit one of its own dying spy satellites with a missile on Wednesday, Washington time - Thursday in Beijing - citing fears that a normal re-entry would risk lives.
Earlier this month, Russia and China proposed a treaty to ban weapons in space and the use or threat of force against satellites and other spacecraft. But Washington rejected the proposal as unworkable and said it instead favours confidence-building efforts, the New York Times reported.
China, which shot down one of its own satellites in January, 2007, is monitoring Washington’s destruction of the satellite.
“The Chinese side is continuing to closely follow the U.S. action which may influence the security of outer space and may harm other countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular news conference.
The ruling Communist Party’s newspaper, the People’s Daily, went further, accusing the U.S. of dangerous space ambitions and double-standards.
“The United States will not easily abandon its military advantage based on space technology, and it is striving to expand and fully exploit this advantage,” said the front-page commentary in the overseas edition of the paper, which came out before Washington announced one of its missiles had hit the satellite.
When China tested an anti-satellite missile a year ago, the Bush administration and other governments criticized the act as dangerous.
The Chinese state newspaper said the United States was hypocritical.
“The United States, the world’s top space power, has often accused other countries of vigorously developing military space technology, but faced with the Chinese-Russian proposal to restrict space armaments, it runs in fear from what it claimed to love.”
The paper said Washington was “desperately trying to explain away” its satellite shoot-down as “for purely non-military objectives”.
Nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction are banned from space under a 1967 international treaty, but Washington’s plans have caused concerns about non-nuclear arms in space.
© 2008 Reuters
“_______________ Accuses US of Hypocrisy”
George W. Bush is our judicially selected president.
In the National Security State there is only supremacy.
There is no diplomacy, there is no negotiation. There is no cooperation.
There is no democracy. There is only National Security.
For once I agree with China! The country that executes more people than all other countries combined. The country that invaded the country of Tibet and still commits human rights violations there everyday. And I agree with them that my country did something hypocritical, dangerous, and stupid.
Of course it’s hypocrisy. Do people really think that the US doesn’t have missiles in space now?
I just read the best part of all. The Navy can’t shoot these missiles unless the sea is calm. I’m sure China knows this and will take that into account if they want to attack us.
With all those hundreds of billions of dollars they are given for all these high-tech war-toys, they have to play with them somehow.
How about some of those billions for Infrastructure? Rebuild cities? Clean transportation technologies? Renewable energy? Oh, that’s so 1970’s - the time of all those “excesses”, as Obama said…
The neoconmen gave us a good idea of their regard for treaties and their plans for the U.S. to deny other nations the use of space in their September, 2000, position paper “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”, which can be seen on the web site of The Project for the New American Century at:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
Please note such statements as:
“No system of missile defenses can be fully effective without placing sensors and weapons in space.”
“The Clinton Administration’s adherence to the 1972 ABM Treaty has frustrated development of useful ballistic missile defenses.”
“For U.S. armed forces to continue to assert military preeminence, control of space – defined by Space Command as ‘the ability to assure access to space, freedom of operations within the space medium, and an ability to deny others the use of space’ – must be an essential element of our military strategy.”
There’s a lot more in this 90 page document. Considering that members of the PNAC include or once included Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby, Bolton, Khaililzad, and others now or formerly part of the Bush-Cheney junta, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” should be required reading–along with other statements on the PNAC’s web site (like their open letters from early 1998 urging the invasion of Iraq). Collectively these documents give us a similar warning of the neoconmen’s plan for domination of the entire planet and outer space as Hitler’s “My Struggle” gave of his plans to rule Europe.
what’s the use. Bush and his thugs in the joint chiefs of staff will do what the hell they want and nobody will stop them. Their job is to fight and start wars and are hoping this will start one with China. We can give excuse after excuse but everyone knows what really is behind their space odessy. We want to control the world and space. That’s just the way it is.
The Chinese are obviously right. What is the purpose of blowing up a hydrazine tank that would vaporize upon re-entry?
Second, what makes anyone believe that the interception actually occurred? Our military does not have a good reputation for Star Wars accuracy… nor truthfulness.
How laughable to claim that this shoot-down was to protect earth’s people. The Bush gang doesn’t care a rat’s ass about that. No, they did not want this spy satellite falling over Russia or China. Simple as that. And to think that we listened to Western breast-beating and complaints when the Chinese did the very same thing. The world is FED UP of this hypocrisy.
The Chinese aren’t stupid they understand that 99% of the time… Might makes Right and knowledge of enemy is the key. For instance: US Gov had at least 34 observation(spy)satellites and numerous information gathering aircraft blanketing Iraq. (The term intelligence obscures)
This show of capability (satellite destruction)reinforces US ability to disable an enemy’s first line of info gathering. As does China’s satellite shoot down last year demonstrate.
Side note: As China becomes too powerful to attack or intimidate, Taiwan will be absorbed.
What difference does it make? There isn’t going to be a U.S.A. in the near future, so any posturing by them now is nothing more than some fools trying to delude the world society long enough for them to grab some cash and scurry off to some hideaway where they can sip a few cold ones and reminisce, against the nuclear sunsets, with their scumbag associates about the good old days when they had the world by the balls. If push comes to shove, you can be sure that all those Alien spacecraft will zap! all of those warmongering assholes, but, honestly, I don’t think such a solution would be necessary because, the way things are going, Nature won’t need any help in washing away that detritus.
Putin stated only days ago a new arms race had begun.
China will not be dominated.
So quite soon their military build-ups will be pointed to as reasons why we need to expand our military.
And as soon as we get caught in a messy two front war, we wake up one morning and Taiwan is history.
McCains thousand years in Iraq; that is America’s thousand year Reich, is doomed by it’s own greed.
If they actually hit it & blew it up, we’d see proof. All B.S. (like the faked moon landings — and believe me, I hate to make THAT statement!)
Just think of the next thing they will try. Exploding some nuclear bombs to end global warming.
So many bombs, so little targets.
I am glad that I am living in this time called the ‘technological age’ and that it is providing all the killing and death necessary to make one happy. Otherwise I would have to stop watching TV and get off my sofa to do it myself.
I feel pretty, I feel pretty,
when the bombs go off all around me…
“The United States hit one of its own dying spy satellites with a missile on Wednesday, Washington time - Thursday in Beijing - citing fears that a normal re-entry would risk lives.”
There’s your first clue. The U.S. concerned over a one in a billion chance of risking lives?
Huh. Really. Duh.
There was never any danger to the public. That’s just another lie in the waterfall of lies that has spewed from the White House since 1980. I do like the ‘toxic fuel’ scare tactic. What vehicle fuel isn’t toxic? If they are worried that the fuel would be released into the atmosphere on re-entry then what sense does it make to atomize the fuel in an explosion - spreading it even further into the atmosphere?
It also makes me laugh that China is suspicious of the US. Really? The same US that’s been lying about EVERYTHING, attacking peaceful countries, and murdering people? The same US that locks people up in concentration camps, tortures ‘confessions’ out of them, and puts them on trial in secret kangaroo couts? The same US that brought the fake evidence of WMD to the UN and planned out an assault on Iraq with England before it ever started? The same US that’s had ’strange’ election results the last 2 times? The same US that stood by as Saddam Hussein was lynched then praised the ‘justice’ in Iraq? The same US that’s been feverishly developing Nuclear Weapons while pointing fingers at other countries and blaming them for doing the same thing? The same US that brags about it’s freedom but then censors it’s internet, wiretaps it’s citizens, tries to pass a marriage amendment, wants to outlaw abortion, and is near paralyzed with Islamophobia?
WHY WOULD CHINA BE SUSPICIOUS?
Let’s see -
China shoots down one of its weather satellites in secret at an altitude of several hundred miles (leaving dangerous debris) - refusing to acknowledge the event when confronted.
That’s okay.
The US - after highly publicized announcements - shoots down a satellite that poses danger (albeit very small)to folks on earth at a low altitude - ensuring that the debris burns up or is otherwise rendered harmless.
That’s not okay.
Get real.
Hey ___ that was a good shot. Sure showed those Chinese and Russians warmongers. If we can do somethng as incredible as this, we sure as heck can attack those Arabs in Iran with no problems and take cntrol of thei oil. After all, it was us Americans that showed them camel jocks how to get it out of the ground. My gosh, oil is now selling for more than a hundred bucks a barrel. I’m so proud of what we can accomplish, ___ I could just shit.
One possible problem I wonder about is. Since we managed to blow that big satellite into a million pieces, what happens to the pieces that were flung up into a higher orbit by the blast and won’t zip back in to our atmosphere and burn up? We have about 3,000 important satellites orbiting the Earth, and all it takes to put one of those zillion dollar jobs out of commission, is for one to hit a small piece of space junk.
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Now please, don’t anyone think I was serious about my first paragraph there, and yell at me for being an Iran attacking war monger. I’d much rather us attack Canada or Mexico. It’s closer to home and those people like us.
Well we can’t attack Mexico or Canada because we don’t have any troops. In fact, if Mexico attacked us, we wouldn’t be able to defend ourselves.
We are so worried about the risk from some fuel burning in the atmosphere and harming some people, but we refuse to sign a treating outlawing cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are designed to kill and maim “people”, without regard to their innonence or “guilt”. It is all about FEAR. Shooting down a satellite for “safety” is hypocrisy. And, I am very skeptical if it was actually shot down. I have no way of knowing how true this is. We may be told tomorrow that they actually did not hit it, or we “accidentally” shot down someone else’s satellite.
SIGH!
peace,
st john
“I am committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation”
Peace Through Superior Fire Power . . . .
We have the choice of viewing our relations with other countries as part of a war of all against all or as part of a healthy and peaceful community of life. It is our choice to make.
TheLorax Said on February 21st, 2008 2:53 pm: “Well we can’t attack Mexico or Canada because we don’t have any troops. In fact, if Mexico attacked us, we wouldn’t be able to defend ourselves.”
Hell yeah… there’s a great idea… Canada and Mexico should band together and attack the US… hell, we could even form a coalition of the willing to bring democracy to that dangerous, WMD possessing country. I’m sure we’d be greeted as liberators with flowers. After all, the American people have been living under a tyrant for the past 8 years, I’m sure they’d appreciate us deposing him.
BAH!!! A pox on all their chickens.
Of course…The United States is probably the world’s greatest aggressor and hypocrite…under Bush it has become the number one terrorist state in the world….in almost all aspects of international relations, we act as a bully and as an immoral, unethical and criminal war lord. It is totally sickening that the citizens of this country don;t bring this government, Republicans and Democrats alike, to its knees.
This may have been planed before they even launched the thing. It might have been designed to fail, so they could have an excuse to show their fire power.
More so, the “*gap” dance of USSR vs. USA (brinkmanship) has just exchanged a worn out partner for a new fresh one.
This works quite well for both sides to justify exactly what drives their military industry’s into profit overdrive.
Namaste … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Mahatma Gandhi … … … … … … … … … …
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you guys just crack me up………..at least you can still retain your sense of humour………..
KEM PATRICK
ok, you have 30 seconds to name those 3,000 satellites orbiting the earth starting from now………….
How much did George Bush and his Republicans charge our children for this clay pigeon?
I have two theories concerning the satelite News. It probable was a plan from the beginning to place sensors on the (dummy) satelite for just such a test. It didn’t stay up there very long before it started to drop out of space.
Or, they were much more concern that someone else could get to what was left of it first. What if what was left of it fell to earth in Iran, Russia, China……….
While the Chinese are far from the ideal parties to criticize US space policy, they are correct to warn about a space arms race. Such an arms race would generally not be a good thing except for the companies that would produce the arms & the lobbyists who grease the congressional wheels.
The US-Chinese suspicion (top-level utterings) or inculcated fear (Joe Rednex) is bogus. The US Fortune-500 would be nothing without the Chinese, and they (along with Japan) control a good portion of our debt. Their power brokers and ours know it — we’re joined at the hip now.
>> It might have been designed to fail, so they could have an excuse to show their fire power.
Exactly.
The whole purpose of “did it hit” and “who is more hypocritical” and “toxic or not toxic” is ultimately to divert from the fact that these are just the increasing maneuvers of space wars.
Nothing more.
Do you really think the US “waits” for a satellite to fail to “try out” its weaponry? And then, opps, hey, it works!?
Don’t think so for a second.
The oil is running out and whomever has something “over” others, will determine who gets it.
Wolfitwo: The US has been a terrorist nation for a very long time. The bombings of Hiroshima,Nagasaki, Dresden and Berlin were all terrorist actions divorced from military value. The purpose was simply terrorism, meaning to instill terror. Other terrorist use terror to fight occupation, the US and Europe have used it as a choice, that is the worst kind of terrorism. Other “terrorist” have no choice. Truman had a choice, and he chose to sacrifice Japanese to intimidate the Russians. Nothing could be worse than that!
As people can probably tell from my post, I’m kinda weird in that I actually like reading history.
Even as a naive teenager, World War II history books were always very bizarre on the topic of bombing cities.
Early in the war its a horrible crime against humanity. When Hitler is using the Luftwaffe to bomb Guernica, Rotterdam, and London, he’s a horrible monster for daring to unleash his bombers against civilians in cities.
But, when even at the same time Churchill uses his bombers to attack Berlin, there’s nothing really wrong with it. Its more the brave Brits striking back.
And by the end of the war when the USAF and the Brits were just flattening whole cities, its part of the great march to end the war. Then, when the war is really actually over, when we create great, ferocious ‘fire storms’ that destroy Dresden and Hamburg and Toyko, again, its just those innovative allies trying to end the war. And of course the slaughterhouses of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are just steps taken to end the war.
And ever since, its always been considered ‘OK’ for the US to go around the world bombing civilians, bombing cities, destroying dikes to flood the rice patties to create mass starvation, or using “shock and awe.”
Me, I always think back to the condemnations of Hitler for when he first used this tactic. It was right to condemn it then, and its still right to condemn it today. Its still a monstrous, inhuman act.
I also like reading Chomsky.
He makes the point that US policy has really been very consistent throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
The policy stays very consistent. The ‘monsters’ that are created to excuse the policy change. ‘Red Scare’, ‘fascism’, ‘communism’, ‘drug dealers’ and now ‘terrorists’. The propaganda changes as the times change. The policy really doesn’t.
Might depend on how define ’satelite’. This wikipedia page seems to say somewhere between 560 and 8000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite
Space Surveillance Network
The United States Space Surveillance Network (SSN) has been tracking space objects since 1957 when the Soviets opened the space age with the launch of Sputnik I. Since then, the SSN has tracked more than 26,000 space objects orbiting Earth. The SSN currently tracks more than 8,000 man-made orbiting objects. The rest have re-entered Earth’s turbulent atmosphere and disintegrated, or survived re-entry and impacted the Earth. The space objects now orbiting Earth range from satellites weighing several tons to pieces of spent rocket bodies weighing only 10 pounds. About seven percent of the space objects are operational satellites (i.e. ~560 satellites), the rest are space debris. USSTRATCOM is primarily interested in the active satellites, but also tracks space debris which upon reentry might otherwise be mistaken for incoming missiles. The SSN tracks space objects that are 10 centimeters in diameter (baseball size) or larger
I wonder a lot what it would be like if we ever had an administration that actually functioned the way our founding fathers intended. It angers me that every twisted thing they do is done in OUR name as though we sanctioned their garbage.
Hope the link I’m putting in works. It is a..
chronological list of US interventions to 2002
http://www.apk2000.dk/netavisen/artikler/global_debat/2002-1126_us_imp_basic_stats.htm
If it doesn’t just copy it to a search engine or just type in US interventions..it’s mind boggling.
Who annointed the US as the global police?
The U.S. doesn’t plan to have its spy satellites fail miserably. Halliburton is very sorry and says it won’t happen again next time.
The reason this particular spy satellite was picked for destruction is because it’s the size of a city bus, reflects radar well, is visible to the naked eye through a telescope, and its orbit is known and dependable. The U.S. missile defense system may or may not work on a smaller object the size of an aging Chinese weather satellite, and it would be embarrassing to miss. Again. If you’re going to show off your anti-anti missile missile to the world just like China did, you don’t want it to shoot itself down in public.
“HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) - A US missile shot down a rogue US spy.”
Now that we know what to do with rogue spys can we get to the telcom spys?
Despite the distrust that the Bush team has rightfully earned through their unprecedented abuses and manipulation of science, criticism concerning destruction of this satellite should be tempered until the facts are known. The dangerous consequences from our technology getting into the wrong hands would alone be sufficient to justify this action.
Alright, look you guys, I know you’re paranoid and I know that doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you but lighten up for a minute. I mean, George is doing me a favor here, a BIG favor. You know those guys couldn’t hit water falling out of a boat. OF COURSE they didn’t hit that satellite, BECAUSE IT’S MINE - I BOUGHT IT - GEORGE HAS CASHED THE CHECK. I even paid for the phony missile AND the launch. This shit ain’t cheap.
You see, I’ve got this ex-wife, and I’ve got the exact GPS coordinates for her house, and that satellite has more than cameras on it if you catch my drift. I’m thinking “gas-leak”, terrible accident. After that, I’m freelance. SO LIGHTEN UP ALREADY.
This is a “Business Opportunity”. I may even have some employees if it goes good. This is my big break. Don’t fuck it up for me with stuff like mutual unscheduled verifications, disarmament treaties, mutual development of shared space resources. You know that commie shit. I mean, they’d KNOW my satellite was still up there and that’s baad for bizziness, isn’t it….
So there you are….or were…or might be someday, Right?
Pieces of 8.
COMarc said
“And ever since, its always been considered ‘OK’ for the US to go around the world bombing civilians, bombing cities, destroying dikes to flood the rice patties to create mass starvation, or using “shock and awe.”
Me, I always think back to the condemnations of Hitler for when he first used this tactic. It was right to condemn it then, and its still right to condemn it today. Its still a monstrous, inhuman act.”
You have to understand that “bad things” are things that
other countries do, when we do them it’s OK. For instance
“waterboarding” or as the Japanese called it “the water
cure” was condemed after WWII and some Japanese soldiers
were sent to prison. Yet now that America is in the
business of torture it is perfectly OK. Do we have a
double standard……well Duh.
Hi ~COCO~, I don’t know all of their names, don’t even know one of them. There are about 8,000 man made objects in orbit around our planet, but only abour 560 are now operational satelittes, as ~CoMark~ correctly noted.
Of ocujrse after blowing this one up yesterday, there may be 1,000,8000 man made objects orbiting Earth now.
…..and disabled (scum of the earth) people fighting the government for help get $335.00 a month to live on.
Do you have any idea how much money there is to be made in a space arms race? Do you realize the power behind the people trying to steer the country in that direction so they can become more powerful still? Who is going to stop this? Watch Americans support the militarization of space. We need to be protected! American life is precious and must be protected at all costs. 9-11 , nothing will ever be the same. The world changed. We are all so afraid! If the leaders didn’t know what babies Americans are, they wouldn’t have pulled this off. But they knew American’s would start trembling at the thought that they could die prematurely on their way to the next Big Mac.
Robert Settgast: If our technology got into the wrong hands…
The worst they could do is what the US is doing already. Are you suggesting that once the thug dominates, it is reasonable that he should try to continue dominating? Only the pure have the right to wield the sword right? Keeping technology secret from other human beings is greedy. It is symptomatic of a desire to succeed at the expense of others instead of together. This is what creates wars.
Don’t worry about the horrible people getting the technology. It is the horrible people who already have it.
I can’t believe the propaganda and hype surrounding the “shoot-down” of an alleged crippled “spy satelite” by the US military. What a load of bullshit the sheeple are being fed! Even if they actually did it, there was nothing technologically difficult about it, regardless of what you heard about it from the corporate MSM.
I watched the pictures of the launch of the missile and the subsequent explosion in the night sky. I heard the TV newspeople comparing it to shooting a bullet in flight with another bullet. What a bunch of BULLSHIT! Well, the Pentagon certainly got their Millions of dollars worth out of that missile and the media circus before and after.
Think about what you didn’t hear, rather than what you did hear. They told you nothing about the trajectory of the wayward satellite or the shoot-down missile, but you can bet that the missile came up from behind the satellite, and the closing speed allowed for easy course correction to hit the schoolbus-sized target, kind of like coming up behind a bus on the interstate in a faster car.
Think about it, we have been docking with the spacelab and collecting satellites for repair for quite some time now. Overtaking and linking with satellites in space, especially those in predictable orbits, is commonplace. You can bet your sweet ass that they did not launch a westbound missile to intercept and destroy an eastbound satellite, even if it was the size of a schoolbus. GET REAL!
Another thing to keep in mind is that a super-secret spy satellite would not be put into orbit without safegaurds for self-destruction or self-defense in the above mentioned current environment. So what’s he big deal? There’s really nothing to see, hear or talk about here, unless your the Pentagon, looking for more funding for “Star Wars” projects.
Ahh, but didn’t they get the most BANG for those millions of OUR BUCKS? Wise up!
KEM — NORAD space command tracks far more than that, by a couple orders of magnitude with it’s radar, and NASA will re-plan shuttle flights based on the possible close passage of even a single nut or bolt.
A single paint chip moving at 5 mile/s has enough energy to crack and blow out a window, even though the window is made of hardened sapphire “glass” some 4″ thick. During orbital activities they orient the shuttle exposure to be the minimal risk thermal panels foremost, for the most likely debris direction, leaving the much more vulnerable windows and cargo bay covered by the thickness of the entire shuttle.
It still amazes me that this supremely accurate radar system, able to image individual nuts and bolts orbiting 300 miles up, somehow lost track of 4 jumbo sized airplanes flying just at a few thousand feet for more than an hour on 9/11.
namaste, you said, “It still amazes me that this supremely accurate radar system, able to image individual nuts and bolts orbiting 300 miles up, somehow lost track of 4 jumbo sized airplanes flying just at a few thousand feet for more than an hour on 9/11.”
I couldn’t agree with you more, especially when those planes are flying in probably the most highly protected and secure airspace in the world! But, some people CAN be fooled ALL of the time, and corporate MSM programming of their thought processes assures higher numbers of them every year!
I can’t believe the propaganda and hype surrounding the “shoot-down” of an alleged crippled “spy satelite” by the US military. What a load of bullshit the sheeple are being fed! Even if they actually did it, there was nothing technologically difficult about it, regardless of what you heard about it from the corporate MSM.
I watched the pictures of the launch of the missile and the subsequent explosion in the night sky. I heard the TV newspeople comparing it to shooting a bullet in flight with another bullet. What a bunch of BULLSHIT! Well, the Pentagon certainly got their Millions of dollars worth out of that missile and the media circus before and after.
Think about what you didn’t hear, rather than what you did hear. They told you nothing about the trajectory of the wayward satellite or the shoot-down missile, but you can bet that the missile came up from behind the satellite, and the closing speed allowed for easy course correction to hit the schoolbus-sized target, kind of like coming up behind a bus on the interstate in a faster car.
Think about it, we have been docking with the spacelab and collecting satellites for repair for quite some time now. Overtaking and linking with satellites in space, especially those in predictable orbits, is commonplace. You can bet your sweet ass that they did not launch a westbound missile to intercept and destroy an eastbound satellite, even if it was the size of a schoolbus. GET REAL!
Another thing to keep in mind is that a super-secret spy satellite would not be put into orbit without safegaurds for self-destruction or self-defense in the above mentioned current environment. So what’s the big deal? There’s really nothing to see, hear or talk about here, unless your the Pentagon, looking for more funding for “Star Wars” projects.
Ahh, but didn’t they get the most BANG for those millions of OUR BUCKS? I think the shoot-down cost was $60 Million.
Wise up!
would you like some debris with that hubris?
one satellite coming down posed a “risk to lives”.
nearly two hundred fragments didn’t?
Incinerating the world in a nuclear exchange, polluting the biosphere with radioactivity and causing a nuclear winter is not the preferred way to reverse the overpopulation and prevent the wealth concentration that caused it.
The pot calls the kettle black. China did the same thing a year ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.missile/index.html
I guess there was an article here about that then and the appropriate amount of shock and concern, but I really don’t remember.
Of course, what we did was much worse, because, well, we are just much worse.
Than anybody.
eraldo said:
The pot calls the kettle black. China did the same thing a year ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.missile/index.html
I guess there was an article here about that then and the appropriate amount of shock and concern, but I really don’t remember.
Of course, what we did was much worse, because, well, we are just much worse.
Than anybody.
According to the American vision of itself, America is better than other nations, but by its actions demonstrates repeatedly that it is no better at all. Even if it felt compelled to demonstrate for reasons of world security that it is able to match China’s ability to knock a satellite out with a missile, it should at the least have the decency to put forth that as the reason for this latest adventure. By failing to be honest and instead to put forth a shabby and easily refuted deception it just further tarnishes its image.
Ahhhhh…. Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s not forget the RAPTURE. It will be marvelous to die in that big fire ball and to see Jesus welcoming us into his bosom as the rest of the heathens in the world are incinerated.
From Dr. Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb:
“THERE MUST NOT BE A MINESHAFT GAP!” My favorite line of the film.
I am certain that the hypocrisy of the US (and China) is not merely limited to space.
“AS ABOVE, SO BELOW” (referring to hypocrisy in outer, and “inner” space).
We need to find the “Heavencommons” and identify with that, instead of the lowest common denominterminator.
Namaste … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Mahatma Gandhi … … … … … … … … … …
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« We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself » — ML King
Lucky Lefty, LOL. LMAO.
I do believe every one who has posted on this article MISSED THE POINT ! The USA’s politics, and economy is geared to a military industrial complex; “America” is structured to produce and sell billions of dollars of weapons to remein viable. On the other hand China needs to and does merely sell 50 cents/pair of socks and we are happy doing that and get to be moderately well off !
That is why the Brits call us the “peace mongers” and the USA is spat on as the sole superpower WAR-MONGERS !