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Does Not Play Well with Others
Now the Bush administration has declared SPACE to be the U.S. back yard and will not share it: the new National Space Policy asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone "hostile to U.S. interests."
"Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power," the policy asserts in its introduction. In the first revision of the policy in ten years, differing attitudes toward treaties are obvious. The Clinton policy said that the United States would develop and operate "space control capabilities to ensure freedom of action in space" only when such steps would be "consistent with treaty obligations."
The Bush policy accepts current international agreements but states: "The United States will oppose the development of new legal regimes or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit U.S. access to or use of space."
Bush's top goals are to "strengthen the nation's space leadership and ensure that space capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security, homeland security, and foreign policy objectives" and to "enable unhindered U.S. operations in and through space to defend our interests there."
Clinton's top goals were to "enhance knowledge of the Earth, the solar system and the universe through human and robotic exploration" and to "strengthen and maintain the national security of the United States."
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http://zfacts.com/p/535.html | 08/08/08 01:16 GMT
Modified: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:19:09 GMT
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