Bush's Arrogance Reaches New Heights - Literally

Someone needs to point out to George Bush that we don’t live in the eighteenth century. You see, back then, it was pretty much permissible to plant your flag in any piece of turf you figured your military could defend, and claim it in the name of France.

However, the age of empire is over. Britain has divested itself of a quarter of the planet’s land in the last sixty years, and the other imperial powers – such as France, the Netherlands, Belgium and so on – have relinquished their grip on Africa and the tropics.

Now, however, George Bush wants to reverse this historical trend. Today he announced that the USA (read: George Bush) has the power to deny other countries access to space.

Now space, as you may appreciate, is probably going to be a better piece of business in the future than the Congo was for Belgium. It’s literally the future of mankind.

And all of mankind has a right to explore, develop and utilize the unclaimed territory beyond our atmosphere. Or at least, it did.

George Bush’s assertion that the USA can block space access is the ultimate arrogance. It will make it even clearer to the rest of the world that we now consider ourselves an imperial power, with an absolute monarch at our head. And a second provision that allows for the militarization of space will cause other nations to become still more angry towards us.

Space doesn’t belong to the USA, and the notion that George Bush should approve who can, and who cannot seek to explore it is abhorrent.

Please, someone, stick this guy in a cowboy outfit and put him on display in a museum; that’s where he belongs.