At universities, little learned from 9/11

Boston Glob ^ | September 13, 2006 | Harvey Mansfield

[bitt]

FIVE YEARS have now passed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and what have our universities been doing? I can tell you about Harvard, and the answer is not reassuring.

Harvard has just welcomed the former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to give a little talk. Harvard thinks this is free speech, but in fact the university has allowed itself to be used as a platform for sweet-talk in the service of a regime that hates, and wants to bamboozle, America. Note, too, that Harvard professor Stephen Walt and a Chicago professor have just written an exposé of the Israeli lobby's influence on American politics. They encourage the belief that Israel is the main problem we face .

Nor has Harvard relaxed its hostility to ROTC on the campus. The pretext is the military's policy discriminating against gays by requiring them to keep silent about being gay. Never mind what would happen to gays or defenders of gays if the Islamic fascists took over.

These are not isolated incidents but signs of the prevailing attitude at Harvard and other elite universities. There is lots of griping against the Bush administration but little activist dissent of the kind seen in protest against the Vietnam War. Cindy Sheehan's movement has not caught on.

All to the good, one might say. A university is not a political actor and should not be drawn away from its own business by too much concern for current events.

Yes, agreed. A university is an institution of learning, and as such takes a broad view of things. But this means it should learn from events if not try to control them. What has Harvard learned from Sept. 11? Very little.

[bitt]

"Sept. 11 was a stunning blow to multiculturalism. The attacks showed that we have enemies who hate us because they hate both our principles and our practices. They despise the way we live not because we do not live up to our principles of freedom, democracy, and toleration, but because we do. They do not think we are multicultural; they believe we have one culture, and they mean to do away with it.

The feminists at Harvard seek to remove every vestige of patriarchy in America, but they have said almost nothing about the complete dismissal of women's rights by radical Islam. To do so would be to attack Islamic culture, and according to multiculturalism, every culture is equal and none is evil. They forsake women in societies that repudiate women's rights and direct their complaints to societies that believe in women's rights. Of course it's easier to complain to someone who listens to you and doesn't immediately proceed to slit your throat. No sign of any rethinking of feminism has appeared in the universities where it flourishes."......

EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!!! see the rest!

[LurkedLongEnough]

bttt - the ending especially

[AmericanChef]

Universities ain't for learnin'. They're communes for the mentally challenged.

[Earthdweller]

The professor talks about "befuddled liberals". They are not befuddled. It's a divide and conquer strategy.

In their minds, they pit "extremism" on their own soil against extremism abroad and hope they will exterminate each other.

While in this passive aggressive state they fail to answer one question;

If Islamic extremism wins the battle in this century, what kind of "enlightenment" will it give birth to?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[ntnychik]

Thanks for the ping, bitt.

[potlatch]

Thank you bitt. As a woman, I dislike these overly agressive feminist types, in fact - they have lost any vestige of femininity.

[devolve]

O'Reily had an woman attorney on last night (ex-US military Captain)

he had that "look"

And was pushing US Constitutional rights for captured terrorists

O'Reilly got her to say that playing rock music was "torture" when interrogation got one biggie to break down and give info on a plot to kill thousands

She kept saying it was wrong

Money grabbing radical leftie attorneys like her will have to be shut down and even imprisoned or many Americans more will die

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[potlatch]

I am always amazed at all the young beautiful women attorneys on the cable news shows.

They have beauty and intelligence, but the ideas of the left leaning ones have lost all common sense. It blows my mind.

[devolve]

This one was not "beautiful" in any way

Looked "60s-Hillary" with long stringy hair and huge glasses

A deliberate look too

[TADSLOS]

This one got it right off. We were there. Tears were shed.

[potlatch]

Yes, Hillary went through that really ugly phase. The lesbo look or something. Surprised Bubba looked at her twice, lol.

[ntnychik]

WOW! That made my screen get blurry. Good for A & M!

[ntnychik]

Thanks for the ping. Excellent article. Can't believe the Globe printed it.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Universities everywhere =

Learn to appreciate THIS:



9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P.


RICK RESCORLA - Website
http://www.RickRescorla.com

RICK RESCORLA joyful 'Follow Me' Statue's unveiling at Ft. Benning GA - Pictures
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm

RICK RESCORLA Forum Thread
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361

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[NutCrackerBoy]

Piece was linked by NRO's Phi Beta Cons Mansfield on the Academy and 9/11.

Harvey Mansfield is always insightful, and his essay on the impact of 9/11 on the academy is full of good stuff...All of this has been said before, of course, but it must be said again and again. Our attention spans can be brief, and we can grow weary of the ideological fight. Thankfully, Harvey Mansfield does not. -David French

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[devolve]

[melt]

Boston Glob

I wonder how the author ever got published at the Boston Glob? There must be multiple liberal BARF ALERTS! going off all over the city right now.