still more diverse opinions on the new space policy

Buzz Aldrin has a column strongly supporting Obama's new space policy as does James Cameron. On the other hand, Paul Spudis makes some good points against it in this discussion thread. Spudis actually gets to the crux of my concern about the new policy with this statement:

"A plan to go anywhere and everywhere with this agency IS a plan to go nowhere.

Without the strategic direction provided by the Vision, the “new paradigm” will degenerate entirely into process, with hordes of bureaucratic committees engaged in “studies” and “roadmapping exercises'."