[MamaLucci]

This was definitely NOT the reaction the speaker expected.
WTG, UofW Graduates!

[Amelia]

Cheers for the class of 2004!

[PigRigger]

"These students were history majors, and they have been studying and reading and watching just what has been happening in the world. They told me that this is a war of civilizations, and that those who are attacking the president for fighting the war in Iraq would have attacked the president had he not gone into Iraq. They pointed out that the critics of the president attacked him for taking too long to go after Afghanistan . . . and yet attacked him for going to war against Iraq too soon."

After the last few weeks of relentless hammering of our President, it is good to see that some of the next generation understand what we are up against and the hypocrisy of those on the left who attack the WOT.

We all have a lot hanging in the balance; our children have the most to win or lose. Hopefully, they understand this point. After reading the article, I believe they may.

History Majors in particular understand this all to well; human history has been victim to the evil we see today time and time again. The past has so much to teach us if we would only listen.

[RetiredArmy]

They've received a liberal education and learned to think for themselves.

Well, if they got a liberal education, they certainly did not learn to think for THEMSELVES! They only learned to think as a herd. So, they must not have got a liberal education if they are THINKING!!!

[Recovering_Democrat]

These students ...told me that this is a war of civilizations, and that those who are attacking the president for fighting the war in Iraq would have attacked the president had he not gone into Iraq...that the critics of the president attacked him for taking too long to go after Afghanistan . . . and yet attacked him for going to war against Iraq too soon.

Man, oh man. I haven't seen it put like this in print, but it is dead solid perfect.

Someone else needs to put this out there for public consumption. What a perfectly succinct way of describing the current situation.

[oblomov]

Wow...Madison is the former US Headquarters of Radio Havana.

I went there in the late 80s, and everywhere there were "communal bikes": bikes that had been "expropriated" and were now being used by students at will. Peaople would use them to ride from one bar to another, or back to the dorms, and leave them for the next person. This idiocy works fine until a bike needs maintenance- then it's allowed to just fall apart like everything does under socialism.

[afraidfortherepublic]

One thing not mentioned in this article is that Bradley Whitford challenged the President to "prove" that he'd written his Concordia speech himself. I take that to mean that the left is nervous because the President's Concordia speech was the finest I have ever heard him deliver -- and it was VERY WELL RECEIVED at Concordia U with lengthy standing Os.

I thought that was a really dumb remark on Whitford's part, and I amagine that it did not go over too well. Perhaps waht is what the students meant when they said they didn't like some of the things he said.