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To: Rascal who wrote (2873)	7/22/2002 3:40:28 PM
From: jjkirk	Respond to of 89467

The More Things Stay the Same Government subsidized Anti-American types lash out at their critics. The mainstream media/academy/government continue to look to the old tired socialists among us....jj Incredibly, the massively increased government subsidies to academic "area studies" programs authorized by Congress in the wake of September 11 are being used to line the pockets and promote the work of the very people most bitterly opposed to the war on terror. And the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), whose scholars stand to benefit most from the funding windfall, is led by Stanford historian, Joel Beinin, an unrelenting radical left-wing opponent of American foreign policy — a man whose position on the war is quite like that of Noam Chomsky himself. Last week, Beinin sent out a letter to directors of academic Middle East centers warning them of the "significant threat" posed to their government funding by Martin Kramer, Daniel Pipes...and me. (For more on the controversy, see Beth Henary's piece, "Crisis Studies?" as well as the "Scrapbook" section of the current issue of The Weekly Standard.) Like Middle East experts Kramer and Pipes, I have written a series of articles on the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, and on the well-meaning but foolish government policy of subsidizing such work in the name of national security. nationalreview.com