Antiwar movement preceded war

The Washington Times ^ | 3 July, 2005 | Kieran Michael Lalor

[No Longer Free State]

The feigned outrage over Karl Rove's criticism of the liberal response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on this country forced me to recall what liberals I encountered were saying in the days immediately after the savage attacks.

I was then in my first few weeks at Pace Law School with a front-row seat to the left's post-September 11 reaction. September 11 challenged us as individuals, as law students, and as Americans. America must respond forcefully, I thought, and that response will be definitive as it reverberates throughout the world for decades to come.

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Yet my professor, the law school's former dean, entered the classroom and framed the debate with this question: "The United States was attacked by terrorists on Tuesday. Can you think of a time when the United States acted as terrorists?" I was utterly speechless, as were many of my classmates.

Answering his own question, he mentioned the "My Lai massacre" in Vietnam, slavery and the treatment of American Indians as examples of American terrorism. Twenty-five miles from Ground Zero, where rescuers struggled in hopes of finding survivors still alive, this law professor chose to focus on the blemishes in our history as an introduction to our first post-September 11 class. I have to give him credit for being on the cutting edge of liberalism because at this point the now notorious International Freedom Center slated to occupy Ground Zero was just a twinkle in the left's eye.

My professor set the stage for a round of America-bashing and a student from Ethiopia, as if on cue, unleashed a blistering condemnation of the United States for not doing more about the bloodshed in Rwanda in the early 1990s.

[No Longer Free State]

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[wagglebee]

Yet my professor, the law school's former dean, entered the classroom and framed the debate with this question: "The United States was attacked by terrorists on Tuesday. Can you think of a time when the United States acted as terrorists?" I was utterly speechless, as were many of my classmates.

I would have told him to STFU and teach the class I was enrolled in, because I'm not aware of any law school courses that deal with the history of terrorism.

[jess35]

We shouldn't be surprised at a typical reaction from America hating leftists.

If we lived in the type of country they wished upon us, would they be surprised when their freedom of speech was nullified?

[Arpege92]

This sounds just like a professor my hubby had back in his college years. Like you, he told one particular professor to stop giving his personal opinion and just teach the friggen course. My hubby and a couple of other students just walked out of his class.

[wagglebee]

I am so happy that I went to a college where ALL of the professors were to the right of the average FReeper.

[kublia khan]

Of course Rove was right the left including Madeline Halfbright and her boss the serial rapist in chief both espoused a legal response to each terrorist act that happened on their watch.

[Mr. Mojo]

My professor nodded his head approvingly at the outlandish notion that America's inability to stop Rwandans from killing each other was somehow equal to suicide hijackers flying planes into office buildings.

Somehow I doubt that this professor was equating America's inaction in Rwanda with terrorism during the massacre itself. And why is that? Because Bill Clinton was President at the time.

[Ken522]

Where's you go to college? I went to the University of Colorado (Boulder) - as an ROTC student, I felt sort of out-of-place among the pot-smoking, cocaine-sniffing deadbeats.

[Mr. Mojo]

"At a memorial service, another law professor opined that if the inevitable war led to the death of a single civilian, the war could not be considered just."

I wonder if this prof thinks our actions in WW2 were unjust?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This sickness is familiar. Its called Liberalism.

[FormerLib]

I wonder if this prof thinks our actions in WW2 were unjust?

Well, assembling a huge fleet of battleships at Pearl Harbor was a naked act of aggression against Japan. The Japanese were justified in launching a preemptive attack in defense of their homeland. /leftist brain-dead speak mode OFF

[Americanexpat]

I took some courses through Florida State University, in Panama, for about a year after retirement. The class was made up of rich Panamanian kids and American soldiers and dependents. The professor was a Panamanian and was anti US and pro French. Everything about France was wonderful, but everything about the US was negative. We Americans ganged up on him after the first class. We figured if he hated Gringos anyway nothing we could do was going to make him like us.

[hershey]

We all recall Bill Clinton's round the world farewell tour on Air Force One, when he stopped in Rwanda, kept the engines running, and told the assembled Rwandans, gee, he'd hadn't been told about the massacres. No one had said a single word about it, so he wasn't to blame. He never knew. Son of a gun. This episode probably slipped he Liberal prof.'s mind. Clinton wasn't ever to blame for anything that happened or failed to happen on his watch.

[wagglebee]

I went to Hampden-Sydney, a small, all-male college in central Virginia. Most of us smoked pot (and various other things), but it is still ultra-conservative.

[ccmay]

Most of us smoked pot (and various other things), but it is still ultra-conservative.

Don't think you have to make excuses. Many good conservatives toked, or still do. The 'War On Some Drugs' has contributed more to statist tyranny than anything Ted Kennedy could have dreamed up, and no true conservative could possibly support it.

-ccm