NASA Quote of the Day

From Charles Krauthammer, who was asked about NASA's new primary mission of making Muslims feel better about themselves:

This is a new height in fatuousness. NASA was established to get America into space and to keep us there. This idea of "to feel good about their past scientific achievements" – it’s the worst combination of group-therapy psychobabble, imperial condescension, and adolescent diplomacy.

Frank at IMAO also has some thoughts:

Well, making Muslim nations feel good about their crappy state of affairs does seem like a challenge on par with going to the moon. As I understand, a thousand years ago, Muslims were the most technologically superior people out there. And a thousands years later, they haven’t really advanced any from that point.

Of course, maybe some people shouldn’t have self-esteem. Considering that all the Muslim nations wouldn’t be at all notable except for the fact they have oil and terrorism, maybe they should feel really bad about themselves. Feeling bad about themselves is a motivation to do better. Maybe NASA could foster that. We could have our space shuttle fly low over their countries yelling, “Look what you can’t do because you suck!” Muslim nations really do need to come to grips with how much they suck if they want to get out of their rut, and we could really help with that.

Exactly.