Posted on 10/09/2001 6:33:56 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
These college students are mollycoddled fairies, physical cowards who are deathly afraid of being drafted.
Their antiwar rhetoric is motivated by a deeply selfish and puerile worldview - they believe the world exists to entertain and amuse them and that pain or privation of any kind is immoral.
To me this is a sophomoric question. The fact is that in comparison to yesteryear, patriotism is UP on college campi.
You should have seen things back during and at the close of the Vietnam War. I remember in 1976, the USMC came and recruited on our small college campus in Wisconsin. Several people in my dorm, mostly (ironically) Jewish kids who argued all the time that Israel had the right to kill all Arabs within its borders to "defend itself," decided they needed to protest the Marine Corps presence.
So they picketed, and to keep things "peaceful" the college administration threw the Marines off the campus. The students congratulated themselves on taking a stand against "imperialism."
I think you'll find a HUGE contrast today, where military recruiters aren't routinely picketed, and most college students love and appreciate this country.
I think we are playing into the hands of the "peaceniks" when we attribute to them far more strength and influence than they actually have.
Give me liberty or give me death is too hard of a burden to bear for those idiots.
"Students walk out of classes in protest of bombing"
October 9, 2001
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) _ About 150 students walked out of classes at Wesleyan University Monday to protest the American and British bombing in Afghanistan.
Demonstrators said a violent response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will only provoke more violence. They urged government leaders to develop a peaceful solution.
``We're trying to critically think about ways in which we could affect a movement of peace,'' Wesleyan senior Ritu Sen told WVIT-TV.
Last month, students formed a coalition against violent retaliation. Other students said they supported bombing Taliban targets in Afghanistan, while some said they had mixed feelings.
``I'm frustrated because I'm not sure what our other options are,'' said Nicole Wellington, a senior at the university. ``A lot of people on campus here are saying they don't support the war, but they're not proposing any other options besides peace.''
The university has scheduled several teach-ins _ lectures, panel discussions and question-and-answer sessions designed to educate the community about terrorist attacks and America's response.
These people went to school.
They never came out.
They're still there !!!!!
They don't seem to realize there's a whole world outside those four walls, and the world is not flat.
They need an update.
Their antiwar rhetoric is motivated by a deeply selfish and puerile worldview - they believe the world exists to entertain and amuse them and that pain or privation of any kind is immoral.
What really stopped the anti-war protests of the Vietnan era?
Was it a change in American foreign policy?...No.
Was it a warming of international relations?...No.
Was it an apology given by then President Nixon?....No.
Was it the advent of real movement in the Paris peace talks?...NO.
Was it the withdrawing of American troops in Vietnam?...No.
Was it the advent of the Age of Aquarius?..No.IMHO...It was the ending of the draft (1972). For so many of the 'peaceniks', it was the fear of being drafted not of any moral standings against the 'war'.
We treat academia as enemy teritory, we fund it, and we rarely take a stance against its follies and excesses. [Lynne Cheney is a shining exception here.]
Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Richard F.
Professor Henry is a peddler of drivel whose objectivity is overwhelmed by his hatred of America, because it's cool ya know!
Other than liberating Kuwait, our policies in the region have been mostly benign. We even stood by and watched as our friend the Shah of Iran was deposed by the same muslim terrorists that we are fighting now. (This one event is the orgin of all our current problems IMO) The sum of our assistance to the region is equal to, or greater than what we give to Israel.
The reason why we are so despised by the muslim rabble is because their leaders, while happy to accept our generosity, use us a scapegoat for their problems. The rabble is brainwashed into believing that the US is the reason for their wretchedness instead of their self-serving leaders and religious slavery.
Answer: NO!
Reason: It was never alive.....It was aborted long before Roe met Wade!
It appears that there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of these 'types' located in tens on countries. They need to be rooted out and eradicated for the welfare of the world politic.
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