Afghanistan Was Lost in the Halls of Harvard

WSJ ^ | 20 sept 2021 | Ruth R. Wisse

[AZJeep]

85 ROTC cadets and midshipmen etc.
______

Total 85+40+27+16+2+1 = 171 military students at Harvard
Out of 20,970 students total.

That means 171/20970 = 0.815%

0.815% of Harvard in military!
At 3 sigma level barely statistically significant.

[P-Marlowe]

Afghanistan was lost the day our own Military confiscated and then burned the Bibles.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”Robert STRANGE McNamara “

Do not overlook “McNamara’s 100,000”

I served with a few of the ones that made it past basic, no problems.
But had heard about some of the washouts; sad stories.

And all of this so as not to draft any congressman’s sons.

Please, Mister Nixion, drop that bomb!
Cause I don’t wantta go to Vietnam!!
I’M I RIGHT?
YOUR RIGHT!
Your left
Your left
Left..right...left...

[The Westerner]

Thank you for posting facts. If ROTC is still banned from Harvard, where are these undergraduates getting trained?

[The Westerner]

More facts. Thank you.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—” If ROTC is still banned from Harvard, where are these undergraduates getting trained?”

If I understand correctly the ban was lifted and all 85 of them(?) attend Harvard.

[The Westerner]

“...ROTC is back on Harvard's campus now. But more than mere acceptance is needed. Students must be offered an education that demonstrates the exceptional merits of their country and civilization, and gives them the intellectual tools to defend it...”

When our nation's philosophy departments refused to employ professors who taught reason, logic, pro-Aristotelian ideas circa 1980’s. the country was doomed. The writer/Professor identifies the source of our anti-American thus anti-Capitalism ideas held by students from grammar school and on. But I disagree with the reason she cites for their spread. Ideas determine the course of a nation and the place where ideas and how to think about them are taught is in Philosophy Depts. Unfortunately, I've had a front row seat in which to view this destruction of lives and minds. It has been a bitter experience akin to my Grandmother's bitterness when speaking of her family who died in Hitler's camps.