Our previous president wouldn't have been above doing that to build support for a war.
Yet much hay is there to be made, and surely the Democrats will lampoon any mission undertaken soon, because it would be "a sign of wreckless abandon by the administration ... blah ... blah ... blah."
I would launch the next mission on schedule; and when it lands successfully, there will be cheering.
It's something we need right now; get back on the horse.
Unless ignorance has set in too well in the shop where the structure is supposed to be finessed instead of finessing the look of gay people, the look of the dis-enfranchised people, the look of political officers, and such Clintonistas about whom their feelings are more important than meticulous attention to mechanical and electrical details.
Meaning that Los Alamos is not a fluke; it just happens to be a more outspoken case revealing "the new paradigm" of being lost in extra-Constitutional space.
If the Democrats can see a way to let blood, they will ... they'll make this event a harbinger to strike a blow against Yankee Ingenuity, to "capitalize" on the chance to raise evermore doubts about, "Are we doing the right thing?"
At first, there will respective "shock;" but then, you watch, the campus minons of socialism will begin to oppose the scientific - military - industrial complex and its imposition "out there" as an attack upon "nature."
In short, "the left" will make this to be "symbolic" of our being rash.
It's "risky."
Boo!
Well, you know it is; and I know it is; and we've gone and done it anyway.
Because we dare to crawl out of the cave, or from the cave, or away from the cave ... that is the cavern which "the left" is always trying to steer the people into.
At the airlines, when that commuter plane was lost in your neck of the woods, the tech.'s "turned to" in greater attention; that is always the reaction. And it's true in the military.
But N.A.S.A. is the air wing of the Congress, as you know, and all direction, save the rash Yankee Ingenuity of men and women of the likes that you are, is inadvertently arrived at by reaction to committee flatulence, in a manner of speaking --- you are expected to read the vapors and do the politically correct thing.
That is often times juxtaposed with the mechanically correct thing.
I once wrote up a report on a little 19 cent "O"-ring which cost me my job but kept a piece of important hardware functioning; I was fired, "let go" for other "economic reasons" very early in 1980's.
The technology was everything, and it had to work. While everybody's politics, sex, religion, and esteem only registered in public.
I was fired for political reasons, however, "office politics;" and though I had a "get out of jail free card," and I was invited to use it, I declined because I'd rather try something new.
I could have nice and cosy inside the "gubmint contract" job, but I preferred to go where the action is.
I did the right thing, about that "O"-ring; and I did the right thing to go and not look back; because I struggle to maintain a standard, or improve it.
God knows that I'm a wreck at times, but I cannot see the point in making political, what is scientific.
There is truth to be found in the technical problem, and the scientific approach most rewarding for the faithful who work to solve things and make 'em work well.
People will fuss over "He said, she said, they said ... " because that is easier, when trying to get ahead in the bureaucratic mindset; but it is not for me.
I tend to stick with making things work, and the "interpersonal dynamic" I want to see, is the smiles on the surrounding faces, when they see both the why it works, as well as the relief, the victory.
The leader of such a shop knows the pride of workmanship and values it above all the other prides which "Goeth before the fall."
Unfortunately, that value was destroyed by Bill and Hillary Clinton, and I cannot tell you what remains of it to have now at our time of need.