The Bush team’s Australian ally proved to the Tasmanians that they could not own what they could not protect. The Bush team’s Middle East ally proved the same to the Palestinians. But those were all land based demonstrations of “you can’t own what you can’t protect”.
The Bush team has now ventured into outer space with a claim of ownership. Can the Bush team protect outer space?
When the Bush team made the ownership claim to outer space, it could not protect an aging Chinese satellite from being shot down by the Chinese military. The Bush team cried FOUL.
Now America has a problem with its own falling satellite and it wants to shoot it down. Usually the Bush team can ignore its RHETORIC if it wants to. But the falling satellite will test a tiny aspect of Bush team’s performance. The Palestinians, in 1948, were unable to protect their land – so they lost it. Can the Bush team protect outer space? If the Bush team cannot, then it can’t own what it can’t protect – unless it wants to trample the rules again.
The Bush team’s “Tell America” press is making it look like Mr. Bush is actively involved in “shooting down America’s falling satellite”. Why is that? If the military does hit the satellite – expect Mr. Bush’s “TELL AMERICA” press to tell the story with text and a picture of Mr. Bush.
From the beginning, it looked like the Bush team’s claim to outer space did not meet the “you can’t own what you can’t protect” rule. The same rule that deprived the Palestinians of their HOMELAND in 1948 and that earlier deprived the Tasmanians of their lives ought to work in outer space.
“You can’t own what you can’t protect”
In response to the Bush team’s outer space ownership RHETORIC two deep-diving Russian miniature submarines descended to the ocean’s floor beneath the North Pole. There they planted the Russian flag on rich mineral deposits. And the Bush team cried FOUL.
It is rare for the Bush team to want to invoke a rule of law and apply it to its own behavior, but it appeared to be ready to hand- off the ocean’s floor’s minerals problem to the United Nations.
It looks like the Bush team was no more prepared to claim ownership of outer space than it was prepared to go to war with Iraq. And the Bush team seems completely unprepared to respond to claims of ocean floor minerals ownership. The Bush team is keen on RHETORIC.
No single man can be all things to all problems. But yet some try.
