Is it safe? Trifecta While

Is it safe? Trifecta

While rummaging around Cryptome, I came across a really disturbing article. Really disturbing - well, to me at least.

U.S. 'negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad

Beginning next year, NRO will be in charge of the new Offensive Counter-Space program, which will come up with plans to specifically deny the use of near-Earth space to other nations, said Teets.

The program will include two components: the Counter Communication System, designed to disrupt other nations' communication networks from space; and the Counter Surveillance Reconnaissance System, formed to prevent other countries from using advanced intelligence-gathering technology in air or space.

"Negation implies treating allies poorly," Robert Lawson, senior policy adviser for nonproliferation in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, said at a Toronto conference in late March. "It implies treaty busting."

Hints of such a policy showed up in the Rumsfeld Commission report of January 2001, which warned of a "space Pearl Harbor" if the United States did not dominate low-earth, geosynchronous and polar orbital planes, as well as all launch facilities and ground stations, to exploit space for battlefield advantage.

So, the next time you're wondering why it is this Administration is pushing so hard for an Anti Ballistic Missile system that doesn't even work yet, just remember this. It's a heck of a lot easier to knock down a single rocket putting another country's spy satellites into orbit than it is to knock down many incoming nuclear ballistic missiles. Yes, the ABM system will not provide any meaningful protection from incoming nuclear bombs. It will, however, provide an excellent platform for dominating low earth orbit.

Again, bait and switch. Get everyone to argue about the idiocy of an ABM system and how it won't make us any safer. The real goal, however, is completely absent from discussion in a clueless media. It's crystal clear that this is their real strategy. Don't worry, our valiant Fourth Estate won't figure it out until it's way, way too late to do anything about it.