Julie: Having, apparently, used up potential sites on earth, we have now "successfully" bombed another body.
To paraphrase the old hunter-and-bear joke, this isn't about bombing the moon, is it? Probably another demonstration of the emerging don't-mess-with-our-deep-space-satellites technology, used as a pointed message to the Chinese.
Meanwhile Facebook pal Andrei Codrescu has this to say:
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