"it seems NASA has no choice but to implement this despicable law" They had the choice of taking a principled stand and deciding not to go ahead with the confe

"it seems NASA has no choice but to implement this despicable law" They had the choice of taking a principled stand and deciding not to go ahead with the conference. Either the event is open to all nationalities or to none. If they had cancelled the conference, not only would it have generated lots of publicity, it would also have put this discriminatory law under the spotlight and brought it to the attention of the wider public.