weapons in space...?!

so now we're going to put weapons in space, too. wtf?! WHY does the US think it is the boss of the world? what if china, or russia, or n. korea, or, hell, CANADA decided to do this? would we allow them? no. so why is the US allowed to?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/business/18space.html?th&emc=th