we dictators love good old fashioned cold war space races.

Hey we've just put a chirping metal football into orbit! crumbs they've just put a hamster in space! quick send up Yuri! Now lets build a space station! Cripes - the other sides' space station is bigger and it has a conservatory! quick lets send some guys to the moon! now we'll finally win it by sending some guys to the moon with a car and a set of gold clubs! Great we won! who mentioned the words budget and lack of a welfare state?.

Space races are fantastic ways of superpowers wasting shed loads of cash on sending blokes into space, which ultimately is an easy way to make a superpower bankrupt so that they stop spending silly amounts of money on things like nuclear weapons and folk singers. Sadly this effect hasn't happened to the Bush administration.
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