A few weeks ago the Bush administration announced a new space policy that essential treats space as a natural resource that the US must defend. The quick summaries I read seems to state that the US is announcing their right to treat the rest of the universe as its own over all other countries and private businesses. It creates a dangerous precedent which parallels the US policy on Iraq.

The other side of the issue treats it as the usual “you mess with us we mess with you” policy. So our property in space is considered part of the United States, and any attack on that property is an attack on the US.

I haven’t read the policy, but you can guess which side Gore is on.