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To: TobagoJack who wrote (13724)	1/22/2007 7:50:42 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217588

China's answer to the hegemonic Howard Hughes David Seaton's News Links Why has China's shooting down of one of their own satellites got Washington's knickers in such a twist? Because it goes straight to the cartoid artery of American military power. America's military supremacy is based on overwhelming air superiority: on being able to control the airspace over any country anywhere without suffering appreciable losses. As we can see in Iraq and Afghanistan American ground forces are limited in their effectiveness even in small, underdeveloped countries. Without its total air superiority, America could never hope to impose its will on Iran and much less the immensity of China. Therefore, defending against the United States, is basically about anti-aircraft technology. If Russia, for example, is selling advanced, but purely defensive, anti-aircraft systems to Iran, the United States protests. Russia is simply "selling Winchesters and whiskey to the Indians". The right to American air superiority trumps any claims to national sovereignty or the basic right of self defense. Of course, the United States has its own wonderful anti-aircraft technology too and has nothing to fear from an foreign air attack, but here is the irony: to feel safe, Americans must feel able to attack anyone anywhere from the air or outer space with impunity. Nothing less will suffice. That is probably the most dangerous mentality in the world. On a national level the United State has become like an obsessive neurotic that spends his days washing his hands in terror of microbes. A hegemonic Howard Hughes. What sort of guilt feelings lie at the heart of such a mentality? And in this neurosis is a self-fulfilling prophecy: if the United States is basically a problem of anti-aircraft defense, then the world will ultimately find a solution to that. David Seaton