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Originally posted by purplehaze357
well I'm going to have to agree with jocha here and say that the Israeli flag does not belong on the patch...
This just goes to show what political correctness is going to do to the world, we feel it necessary to represent a country of someone flying on OUR aircraft and we don't put our flag on our patch...there is something very wrong with that...i don't believe that he should be pointed out specifically because hes Israeli....that to me....makes no sense....maybe I'm not liberal enough to understand but this is America...and NASA is an American organization.....and the shuttle took off from American soil....and those men represented America no matter what country they were from...
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I think this goes to show exactly what arrogance and pomposity have done to this country.
Thank you for being an excellent example.
I am the least politically correct person on the planet. If I were politically correct, I'd mumble some garbage about how you're entitled to your opinion, how we all should respect it, and how
we should just agree to disagree. That, however, leads to selfishness, because the only result is that you think you're allowed to believe whatever you want to believe and do whatever you want to do and think, somehow, that it doesn't affect your friends, family, children, and every other person you ever meet. The fact is, it does.
I am not politically correct. Ever. I do not promote selfishness, I do not understand how you can believe something but agree to disagree, and I, above all else, don't understand how you can go without considering how your attitudes, opinions, and actions affect other people.
The arrogance of the American people is something that, while I've grown accustomed to it, never ceases to astound me. The way that they, in their supposed inifinite power and wisdom coopt the achievements of others, in some morbid way, is amazing.
Stop with the spin. This is tragedy that affects all humankind, because, above all else, it effectively halts any forward progress that may come from the space program for months or years to come. That affects
everyone, whether you'd like to believe it or not, and to brand it American, slap it on a bumper sticker, and deny other nations and other peoples the ability to mourn this loss just as you are is disgusting.