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Originally Posted by tater
Why should I, an American taxpayer, fund ANY education in Muslim countries that presumably will only go towards building missiles, or other things to murder unbelievers?
Or am I missing a point?
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Its all about 'hearts and minds' there are plenty of pepole in the Muslim comunity whom are not muderous extremist. Unfortunatly your not going to sway the latter with good intentions.
But to me its simple .. the space administration is about space and the foriegen relations departments are about forigen relations.
Unfortunatly I think the previous poster whom implied 'give them something to do' may be closer to the truth that you might want to think.
Im guessing the reasoning goes like this NASA has good relations with a number of forigen factions. NASA got smacked up with the program roll backs and yea look to loose thousands of jobs. So why not take advantage of those good releations and make a few jobs while there at it... Very few.
Then theres the enevitable path of the Muslim community getting 'offended' because we gave them this or that technology but witheld other key technology due to security concearns. So there goes the good working relationship with NASA.