Misplaced Priorities

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Fox News reported yesterday on the new mission assignment for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden detailed the three things President Obama asked him to do when he took over as the Administrator or NASA.  The first thing was to help inspire children to study science and math, the second was to expand our international relationships, and the third was 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,""

Meanwhile, Judicial Watch posted an article on June 9, 2010, commenting on the fact that the budget cuts to NASA will force us to rely on Russia to ferry our astronauts to and from the International Space Station.  I guess that is an example of expanding our international relationships.  Are those the same Russians who have sleeper cells throughout our country?

I guess I am not aware of the Muslim nations and their historic contributions to science, math, and engineering.  If you 'google' Muslim scientists, you find out that the greatest Muslim contributions to science were between the 8th and 14th centuries A.D.  The modern-day scientists and engineers seem to be nuclear physicists.  In the Western World, one of the uses of science and engineering is to improve the living conditions of society--indoor plumbing, potable drinking water, generally improved sanitary conditions, medical facilities,etc.  In the Western World, these improvements have spread through the general population--generally they are accessible to all people.  In some of the stricter Muslim countries, half of the population has not been allowed to make a contribution to society--women are not allowed to go to school, to work, or run for political office.  Until Muslim countries begin to allow freedom for their citizens (freedom of education, freedom of religion, and equality of opportunity), I think it is a mistake to believe that a program of cooperation with Muslims would benefit anyone.  Until the radical element of Islam is denounced by the moderate element, we will have no idea who we are working with or what their goals may be.

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