Ok, this whole “blowing a spy satellite out of the sky with a missile even though it costs a gajillion dollars” story is just too juicy to not come up with some conspiracy theories, isn’t it?  We’ve been chatting it up at work this morning and have come with a couple of options.

1) We (the U.S. of A.) didn’t really care where the damn thing landed, but we couldn’t afford to risk another axis of evil-doing country finding it and seeing what we’ve been up to.  We may have been acting a little naughty/illegal.
2) We (the U.S. of A.) didn’t really care where the damn thing landed, but we wanted to take advantage of the situation and do a little sword-rattling.  In other words, it doesn’t matter what you send at us, evil-doers, we can shoot it out of the sky just. Like. That.  So HAH!
3) We (the U.S. of A.) didn’t really care where the damn thing landed, but shooting a satellite out of the sky is just serious, serious fun!  We don’t care how much it costs!  Whoopeee!!

What do you think?  Anyone have any more juicy theories?