I've dismissed claims from the left that the United States still has ambitions as a colonial power. But maybe I need to rethink that:
Bush signed the document on August 31, and the White House released the text this month in the late afternoon of the Friday of a holiday weekend. So the first full revision of space policy for ten years has provoked controversy abroad as much as at home. The eyecatching declaration is that the US asserts the right to deny access to space to anyone “hostile to US interests”, although it gives no basis for that right. It also rejects arms control talks that would limit future US actions in space.
It's ours, all OURS, ha-ha-ha!
