global strike
If reports from Washington this week are true, a new president, George W. Bush, is inclined to go ahead with the Air Force’s ideas for research, and maybe even development and deployment, of offensive weapons in space. The idea called “Global Strike” would, they say, make it possible for the United States to strike with precision any acre of the planet in less than 45 minutes. I doubt that, but the Air Force says it does not.
“We must establish and maintain space superiority,” says Gen. Lance Lord. That’s a name to be reckoned with, even better than Brass Bancroft. “Simply put, it’s the American way of fighting.”
It is? Well, it’s also the American way of scaring the world into hating us. And it is also the American way of scaring ourselves into spending more than a trillion dollars, one estimate of the cost, to protect ourselves from millions of new enemies.
Richard Reeves, Yahoo (read more. . .)