Did you go back and edit something?
(Just asking because I don't remember seeing that link to the Telegraph article... sure I would have clicked on it and then read. Would have been hard to say anything without doing that first....)
Anyway, whether I missed the detail originally or not... what it says is China "fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites" (which I already knew, as it's been previously reported), and it also mentioned near the bottom that one of the Keyholes has "come under attack several times in recent years" --- which has ALSO been previously reported.
And, YOU posted that 'China disables US sat'.
The article does *not* say that the Keyhole was disabled (which would likely be classified info) but, as far as I know, it is still in daily use... so appears to be operational.
(We, too, have been accused by some others --- the Russians, for example --- of testing out laser systems against some of their sats....)
I can only ASSUME though, that if a MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR (likely: *hundreds* of millions of dollars) sat was DISABLED by FOREIGN action, that the United States would immediately act against military assets of the attacking nation. Likely knocking out their sats in reply.
And, that we wouldn't be 'taking any polls' about 'what to do'.
So... are you *saying* that China knocked out a Keyhole... and Bush is twiddling his thumbs about what to do? (And even STILL opposing Congressional actions to force China to play fair with their currency pegs?)
Now, WHY IN HELL would that be? |
