Terrorism? What Terrorism?!

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Tuesday, November 15, 2001 | Martin Kramer

[VietVet]

Regretably, this only reflects the sad state of the social sciences, history, sociology, et cetera, in general.

[AZFolks]

Agreed. The issue is how do we remove these people from positions of power and influence?

[hsszionist]

Islamics are receiving what they payed for. So much for the so called higher learning myth. Freedom of expression as long as the expression is Islamic.

[Valin]

"speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings, sabotage commercial airliners and poison water supplies." Such talk was based on "highly exaggerated stereotyping."

Yet once again I'm forced to ask, why does any one listen to these clowns? Just how many times have they been right about anything in the last...oh say 40yrs? I'm sure they must have been sometime(even a blind squirrel finds a acorn sometimes)but I'm having trouble thinking of one.

[Mr. Bungle]

"Yet once again I'm forced to ask, why does any one listen to these clowns? Just how many times have they been right about anything in the last...oh say 40yrs?"

Leftists dominate and flourish in these fields, and continue to receive attention (Ehrlich, Galbraith, and others come to mind) because, like artists, they trade in ideas, not reality. And the only criteria for remaining in those positions is that those colleagues immediately around you simply like what you say. Being "correct" is simply irrelevant to them, especially so when the underlying postmodern / relativist philosophies they subscribe to preclude such "simplistic" notions. No leftist academic ever put food on his table by agreeing with the common-sense observations of the common man. He simply needs something to do, after all. And the primary skills to ensure a leftist academic remains employed are the abilities to articulate misery, self-loathing, and "aha!" instances of self-blame. Not much else is truly useful to them.

[Congressman Billybob]

Phil --

This is a very important story. But it is also a very dry story. The only angle that would make it of interest to our audience is the fact that their air-headed professors are, in large part, paid for by the "grateful taxpapers," both state and federal. That is true, and that should steam a few people's clams.

Congressman Billybob

[Valin]

Thank you. I'm going to go and bang my head agaist a wall now and maybe I too can be smart like them.
an old saying, insanaity is doing the samething over and over again and expecting a different result.

[Revolting cat!]

No wonder the following headline will appear tomorrow in MS magazine on most newsstands in Mesa, AZ:

Mesmerized MESA Misses Mess in Mesopotamia; Message Misleads Masses

[Revolting cat!]

But it is also a very dry story.

This is pretty much the key to bad government, pork spending and other ills of the kind, isn't it? Since it's not about airplanes flying into buildings, no one is paying attention (close to home: just watch the fate of this very thread.) This is how, I believe pessimistically, these scoundrels will continue to be funded by the taxpayers.

Another observation I have to make is that these are the university departments that produce the "experts" in the State Departments we have been hearing about lately, the infamous girly boy "Arabists".

[Revolting cat!]

Excellent analysis (and another desperate bump to attract attention.)

[packrat01]

Here's one that snuck under the wire.

[packrat01]

Sappers within the perimeter.

[Teacup]

I wonder how they will feel when they all get deported?

[SpottedBeaver]

Thank you for the ping packrat. And I will give it a bump for more visibility.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Sabertooth]

Bump!

[veronica]

Heads up.

[Faraday]

Thanks for the ping. A battle must be waged within academia against the "dominant paradigm" of socialist, hate-America-first propaganda. FReepers can begin by exposing quotes of these terrorist apologists in local community and university newspapers.