The Washington Post put last week’s revision of the National Space Policy on their front page, making it the first of the major papers to cover the policy shift. The Post’s coverage emphasizes the two key paragraphs again, noting that the new policy:
“rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone “hostile to U.S. interests.”
The blogosphere is dissecting the new policy, though the discussion seems to be falling in along party lines of “the Bush administration is extending the failed Iraq strategy to outer space” vs. “glad to see the U.S. is finally exerting its rights to weaponize space”. I’ll keep track of some of the better blog posts below, please let me know if I’ve missed any:
Other major media outlets that discovered the new space policy today:
Updated - The Bush Administration is sticking to its argument that there is no shift in our space policy, there is no news here. From today’s press gaggle:
Q The shift in space policy — can you describe that? And will it allow for weaponization of space?MR. SNOW: It’s not a shift in policy. This was announced in July, but apparently just discovered by some people. The notion that you would do defense from space is different than the weaponization of space. So I think what you have is a revisitation of a lot of old arguments in this case. We’re comfortable with the policy.
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