Strickland Argues For Better Plan From NASA; Fear and Loathing of US Space Policy

John K. Strickland Jr., Advocate with the Space Frontier Foundation, makes some compelling arguments for a better plan for America's future in Space in a recent op-ed.
His first point: Disposable Space hardware is not a sustainable Space exploration program. He posits this question: Why do we need to have a refueling station on the lunar surface if all the vehicles are one-way only?
His second point: The new CEV is too much like the Apollo 2 program, too similar for us to derive any benefit.
But most importantly, Strickland is of the opinion, like myself and many others, that being an isolated one-world species, we risk annihilation from one calamity or another at any given time, and therefore Space technology is critical to the survival of the species and should be continually advanced; we don't need to mine the past for obsolete hardware when we can build it better, faster, stronger right now.
But former Space scientist, and Space nut like myself, Jeff Bell believes too much reliance on scare tactics to force change in our Space program is working against us.

Somewhere in the middle is an honest, objective opinion that mixes just the right amount of logic with just enough fear to get the ball firmly rolling in the right direction.
Somewhere in the middle....