I'll enlist. Where do I sign up?
My letter sent yesterday to the good Prof. Daly:
Mr. Daly,
You have woefully ignored your responsibility to your students. This vile notion that the military should shoot their leaders is not a concept that should be presented to malleable young minds.
An opponent of your warped thinking could respond that the students would be better off if they shot their teachers, at least the teachers that spew the vile garbage you demonstrated.
Yes, a liberal education means tolerance of different ways of thinking, but I don't think it is meant to include stupid ways of thinking.
I am a Viet Nam vet, which is why your statements cause me to be quite angry. The military defends this country and you profane them with your sophomoric statements.
Regards,
John
John Bailey
Davidson, NC
I'd enlist, too.
That's the problem. They won't take us. We have experience, wisdom and sheer determination on our side; we could teach the troops a lot, and have fun beating the snot out of the insurgents.
Alas, they won't even talk to us.
But I look at my office-chair activism - sending off FAXes, making telephone calls, supporting the troops (mailed off a another expensive package yesterday) and making sure everyone around me knows where I stand.
I sometimes feel that what I can do is so little compared to what I COULD do if only I were back at an Intel desk. (OOps, did I just say that last part out loud?)