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Charlie Bolden: Stealth Middle East Diplomat?

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 2, 2010
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“Bolden: I am here in the region – its sort of the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s visit to Cairo – and his speech there when he gave what has now become known as Obama’s “Cairo Initiative” where he announced that he wanted this to become a new beginning of the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. When I became the NASA Administrator – before I became the NASA Administrator – he charged me with three things: One was that he wanted me to re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, that 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 predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”
Question: Are you in some sort of diplomatic role .. to win hearts and minds?
Bolden: NO NO, not at all. Its not a diplomatic anything. What it is – is that it is trying to expand our outreach so that we get more people who can contribute to the things that we do – the international Space Station is as great as it is because we have a conglomerate of about 15 plus nations who have contributed something to that partnership that has made it what it is today …”

Keith’s note: I have shut off comments on this post. I am tired of reading hate language that people have been trying to post. These utterly off-topic rants have come from both sides of the political spectrum. This hate speech will not be tolerated on NASA Watch. Take it somewhere else. FWIW YouTube has also disabled comments on this video.

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