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To: stockman_scott who wrote (128449)	4/5/2004 12:38:22 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Thought Control for Middle East Studies You'd never know that the actual subject under discussion was not any form of censorship, but a possible reduction in government subsidy, would you? The Middle East departments are free to spout whatever nonsense they like on their own dime. But some people feel that they are not entitled to Federal subsidies on the grounds that they train Arabic speakers for the Federal government. They don't. Their programs emphasize politics above linguistics, and they send less than 3% of their graduates to work for the government. Is it so strange to think that Congress might make better use of our tax dollars with a more carefully targeted program? Naturally, at any proposal to redirect Federal funding to other uses, the cries of "McCarthyism" and "thought control" are loud and long.