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Fri, Feb 15 2008
Bus-sized diplomacy
The whole saga of shooting down a failed satellite certainly does sound like the makings of a disaster movie. The difference in this case is probably size. If someone were to make a movie I would imagine that the bus-sized satellite would turn into something much larger and capable of wiping out half the planet.
As for the dimplomacy aspect of this whole matter, I think we're used to the U.S. Pentagon and White House personnel telling other countries what they should and shouldn't do with their weapons, while U.S. weaponry exercises are rationalized as necessary and reasonable. I believe that the best plan would be for us to join hands with other countries now to talk about how to prepare together for anything bigger than a bus that might come hurtling toward us in the future.
posted at: 09:43 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
The whole saga of shooting down a failed satellite certainly does sound like the makings of a disaster movie. The difference in this case is probably size. If someone were to make a movie I would imagine that the bus-sized satellite would turn into something much larger and capable of wiping out half the planet.
As for the dimplomacy aspect of this whole matter, I think we're used to the U.S. Pentagon and White House personnel telling other countries what they should and shouldn't do with their weapons, while U.S. weaponry exercises are rationalized as necessary and reasonable. I believe that the best plan would be for us to join hands with other countries now to talk about how to prepare together for anything bigger than a bus that might come hurtling toward us in the future.
posted at: 09:43 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
