Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Does NASA now stand for the National Arab Schmoozing Administration?
The administration uses NASA for a far out mission


WASHINGTON, DC—If you’ve missed the latest far-out agenda item coming out of the Obama administration, you’re in for a dozy. The new NASA Director has been given the charge of using the space agency for “Muslim outreach”—apparently, reaching the moon is so yesterday, that we are now daring to go where no space program has gone boldly before—not to Mars, but to the Middle East.

New NASA Director Charles Bolden in an interview with Al Jazeera:

"When I became the NASA administrator—or before I became the NASA administrator—[Obama] charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering."

That mission statement brought swift criticism from NASA’s former director, Michael Griffin:

"NASA represents the best of America. Its purpose is not to inspire Muslims or any other cultural entity."

Funny Mr. Griffin holds a now antiquated view of the space administration actually going about the business of space exploration—apparently he doesn’t appreciate such mundane tasks the State Department is supposed to engage in. It makes you wonder what could possibly be next.


--Killswitch Politick




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