here we go

The New York Times has this article, with the headline "Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs". It's all damned frightening until this choice paragraph:

"We haven't reached the point of strafing and bombing from space," Pete Teets, who stepped down last month as the acting secretary of the Air Force, told a space warfare symposium last year.

Oh, thank God. We can all sleep easier now tha--

"Nonetheless, we are thinking about those possibilities."

Link to full article.

Previously on SFB: Colin Powell on the weaponization of space.