Pouring Whiskey On a House Fire

摘要

Although I applaud any attempt to address America's counterproductive and irrational export control regime, U.S. President George W. Bush's administration's recent directive for reform is wildly off target. I have the misfortune of being quite familiar with this issue since, second only to gravity, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) had the greatest potential to keep Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis 1 and 2 spacecraft from ever leaving the ground.