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Not satire, evidently: Obama turning NASA into tool for “Muslim outreach”
WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.
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“We really like Indonesia because the State Department, the Department of Education [and] other agencies in the U.S. are reaching out to Indonesia as the largest Muslim nation in the world. We would love to establish partners there,” Bolden said.
I am struggling to reconcile this with NASA’s avowed raison d’être:
NASA’s mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
I guess the space we’re exploring here is the moronic outer limits of political correctness.
H/T Mitch.
