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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8981)4/16/2005 10:48:12 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Honor and disgrace

Power Line

Yale Professor and Renaissance man David Gelernter inaugurates his regular Los Angeles Times column with a biting condemnation of his leftist academic colleagues who talk out of both sides of their mouths in alleged support of our troops: "Soldiers do us the honor." Professor Gelernter's condemnation can fairly be extended to the world beyond the academy, but Professor Gelernter apparently feels honor bound to point out the rot closest to hand:

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Here in academia, my colleagues seem determined to turn American soldiers into an out-of-sight, out-of-mind servant class who are expected to do their duty and keep their mouths shut. Remember the outcry when that uppity Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin announced in late 2003 that he preferred Christianity to the religion preached by Islamic terrorists, for whom the murder of innocents is evidently a holy sacrament? If you think I'm too hard on my fellow professors, explain to me why Army ROTC host colleges do not include Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the University of Chicago, Caltech…. (Princeton and a few other top universities deserve credit for not being on this list.)
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Coincidentally, our friend Kirk Kolbo notes this closely related New York Post column regarding ROTC by Charles Millard: "Columbia's bigotry." Kirk represented the plaintiffs suing the University of Michigan in the historic affirmative action cases in which the university and its then-president Lee Bollinger solicited the views of the signatories to the "military brief" filed in support of the university's position in the Supreme Court. Kirk wonders why as president of Columbia Bollinger isn't equally solicitous of those signatories on the subject of ROTC on campus. It might take a man of Professor Gelernter's manifold talents to unravel the disgrace Millard documents.

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