Is Iran's New Satellite A Problem?

Uzi Rubin, the ex-head of Israel's missile defense organization, came out on saturday in the Wall Street Journal to say that we should be worried that Iran has a satellite in orbit due to the fact that it could be used in launching ballistic missiles. ow.ly/qpD  U.S. officials have written the satellite off as only "a little metal ball that goes beep, beep, beep".  The Israelis generally over react to Iran, but if the satellite ever becomes a problem we can just do what China did to us in 2001.  archives.cnn.com/2001/US/04/01/us.china.plane.02/index.html

The Chinese military sent a plane to collide with a US spy plane that was flying in Chinese airspace.  The genius decision of collision did not violate international treaties, and it was not a act of war because no shots were fired.  When the US spy plane landed the Chinese interrogated the crew and then took the plane apart so they could reengineer our technology.  After the Chinese derived all the possible classified intelligence from the US planes hard drives they packed the pieces into a China Shipping container and sent it back to Los Angeles along with the crew.  The US has enough junk in orbit to collide with the Iranian satellite and set them back hundreds of millions of dollars, and if they keep launching them we can keep knocking them down. www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/science/20070206_orbit_graphic.htm