Remember a few years ago when we were told that president Obama had decided that the main goal of NASA should be "Islamic outreach"? For those of you who think I am kidding, here is the statement of the head of NASA in 2010 about what president Obama had asked him to accomplish while at the agency:
"One, 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 engineering — science, math and engineering."
It's important to notice that none of the goals set by Obama for NASA had anything to do with space exploration or even flight of any kind. As a result, the American space program has been wasting away for the last five plus years while Obama has been in the White House.
Today, the true impact of that terrible policy decision has been made clear to all of us. The Russians have responded to the new so called sanctions put in place by the West by saying that those new restrictions would threaten the American astronauts aboard the International Space Station. That's right; Putin is now threatening to hold the astronauts hostage because the only way for them to return to Earth is aboard Russian spacecraft. America no longer has any craft capable of carrying men back and forth to space.
It is truly amazing that things have fallen to the point where Putin and his gang are confident enough that America will never take any meaningful action against them that they actually threaten our astronauts. Obama has made America into a laughing stock around the world.
Remember, the USA won the Cold War and Russia lost. Now, Russia is suddenly acts like the super power while America and its president sit by and sputter.
"One, 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 engineering — science, math and engineering."
It's important to notice that none of the goals set by Obama for NASA had anything to do with space exploration or even flight of any kind. As a result, the American space program has been wasting away for the last five plus years while Obama has been in the White House.
Today, the true impact of that terrible policy decision has been made clear to all of us. The Russians have responded to the new so called sanctions put in place by the West by saying that those new restrictions would threaten the American astronauts aboard the International Space Station. That's right; Putin is now threatening to hold the astronauts hostage because the only way for them to return to Earth is aboard Russian spacecraft. America no longer has any craft capable of carrying men back and forth to space.
It is truly amazing that things have fallen to the point where Putin and his gang are confident enough that America will never take any meaningful action against them that they actually threaten our astronauts. Obama has made America into a laughing stock around the world.
Remember, the USA won the Cold War and Russia lost. Now, Russia is suddenly acts like the super power while America and its president sit by and sputter.
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Jeff read this from Newsmax
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/email-Susan-Rice-Benghazi-video/2014/04/29/id/568416/?ns_mail_uid=53606120&ns_mail_job=1567018_04292014&promo_code=vxcfltkc
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