So now we're the space police too?

On January 11, China used a ground-based missile to destroy a satellite in orbit. It was old, and it belonged to China. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, the satellite may have shattered into 40,000 little pieces.
This test was roundly criticized by Canada and Australia, America's favorite toady administrations (aside from Afghanistan and Iraq, of course, which are more like puppets than toadies). Our other best buddies Britain (toady), South Korea (flatterer - I would be too with NK across that DMZ), and Japan (needlessly enamored with us, although maybe I would be too if I had at some point invaded every single one of my neighbors) are "expected to follow suit" according to a U.S. official. Is that a thinly veiled request/command for them to follow suit? Hmm.
Now, this is not the first time this kind of testing has been done. Back in the 80's, America itself did this same thing. But we stopped. Due to international condemnation, do you ask? Nobody would have been that stupid! No, we were concerned that the debris would hurt our other satellites. This from a country that was pretty much more aggressively building up its military than any other country in history, holding more nukes pointed at more countries than anybody else. Imagine yourself in another country. Imagine that country A (the U.S. for anbody not following the analogy) has a really big gun and loves to shoot it off into the air. You have a much smaller gun. Country A tells you you are not allowed to own a gun, and takes it away from you. Country B builds itself a big gun and fires it into the air. Country A says that countries that have big guns not only can't fire them off into the air, but they can't have them. Country A no longer fires its gun into the air. Ok, that was a really bad analogy.
Now, back in October, we revised and updated our space policy. And subsequently, People freaked out a little. Here's from former vice president Al Gore:

"Very few people have analyzed the insides of this new space policy. I urge all of you who are interested in space to analyze it very carefully. It has the potential, down the road, to create the [same] kind of fuzzy thinking and chaos in our efforts to exploit the space resource as the fuzzy thinking and chaos the Iraq policy has created in Iraq. It is a very serious mistake, in my opinion.
We in the United States of America may claim that we alone can determine who goes into space and who doesn't, what it's used for and what it's not used for, and we may claim it effectively as our own dominion to the exclusion, when we wish to exclude others, of all others. That's hubristic."

Further, according to Leonard Davis (Space.com):

"Unfortunately, neither one of them published the part that I was most interested in ... which is Gore's statement that space right now is in the exact same position that the Internet was in the 1970s ... and that space needs to be commercialized in order to achieve its full potential ... just like the Internet only achieved its full potential by being commercialized.
This is a critically important statement by Gore on the commercial space industry that needs to get out ... particularly to the Dems who are likely to take over the House and possibly the Senate."

If I were not an American, I would get so pissed off at America for this kind of behavior. Who went and made us the space police? Isn't it enough that we were made the world police? What? We weren't? I must have missed something, because we have sure been acting like we are.

Edit: Never mind, I am pissed off at America.