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To: Snowshoe who wrote (160293)	3/9/2006 10:10:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793978

So if we can help turn some of these guys around by educating them in the USA, then it's worth a try. Obviously these people have to be screened carefully, but from what I've read the guy at Yale wasn't a very hardcore Taliban and didn't even like wearing a black turban. If inviting him here helps achieve our policy goals, then we should do it. Actually, I have no great problem with weighing the factors and making that decision BUT I think you should consider membership in the Taliban diplomatic core as a serious problem, which perhaps current circumstances have overcome. My true objection is that Yale, which forbids ROTC on campus, seems to regard a Taliban background as cute and endearing. Certainly their current attitude never gives me the impression that anybody at Yale thinks it's anything to be ashamed of.