we have to. china is planning on making a trip to the moon. they will build military bases if we're not there.
I think you just hit on the central issue here. Though the superpowers agreed that the moon would forever be demilitarized, China made no such agreement. And as one man said so long ago, "Whoever controls the moon controls the world."
27 posted on 12/03/2003 3:35:29 PM PST by Prime Choice
(Conservative: One who doesn't believe that turning the U.S. into a third-world nation is 'progress'.)