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  • From: "Sil Greene" <quack AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: "Tanner Lovelace" <clubjuggler AT gmail.com>, "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] US history lesson
  • Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:31:02 -0500 (EST)


Tanner Lovelace said:
> Sil Greene wrote:

>> US ready to put weapons in space
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1345460,00.html
>>
>> Defence expert says America is likely to ignore treaty ban
>>
>> [...]
>> "The document, said Hitchens, signals that the 1967 Outer Space Treaty,
>> which outlaws the use of weapons in orbit, will be ignored."
>> [...]
>
> I know in the past the US has tried to use as justification for breaking
> some treaties the fact that most of them were signed with the USSR,
> which no longer exists, so I went looking for who signed this one.
> That's not the case here, though, as you can see at
> http://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5181.htm#signatory
>
> It looks like just about everyone signed this treaty.
>

Think back a little further. We also broke a lot of treaties (like, all
of them) signed with various groups of indigenous peoples that once
populated much of the land mass we now occupy. I believe the
justification was a doctrine known as "Manifest Destiny".

--s






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