The U.S. Air Force's scary movie

摘要

The U.S. Air Force's dollar81 million "Above All" advertising campaign is attempting to remind the American public that the Air Force still plays an important role in national defense and international security. Given the buzz over how the Pentagon's budget might be reallocated to the services more intimately involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps this campaign is understandable. What is not understandable, however, is the blatant exploitation of people's concerns about space, and that was the basis for one of the "Above All" commercials. In it, a satellite zipped around the planet as a disembodied voice intoned, "What if your cell phone calls, your television, your GPS system, even your bank transactions, could be taken out with a single missile?" As the satellite suddenly was blown into bits, the voice answered, "They can." Rest assured, however, that "[a]s more countries develop power in space, Air Force Space Command is protecting America's interests high above the ground."