The only regret any one of them ever expressed was one who pointed out that he was being fired right at Christmas. He was very sorry for himself. I have heard nothing like this since. I am willing to bet that the reporters who made this a national sensation caught hell for it. Affirmative action means putting in affirmative actors.
Affirmative actors are people who are paid to act like they are qualified.
This would be merely harmful if everybody admitted that it was a silly game. Then all the incompetents would be isolated in some harmless areas, and the quotas would be filled. But preventing such token measures is exactly what militant liberalism is all about. Nobody who wants to be called a respectable conservative would dare speak this truth. So every time the space program has a major catastrophe, what occurs to me is to wonder exactly who was the affirmative actor in this enormously complex project, where any slip kills.