WaPo Op-Ed: ROTC on College Campuses “Taint The Intellectual Purity of a School”… Writer Says He “Admires Those Who Join the Taliban”
The left in a nutshell…
‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ has been repealed. ROTC still shouldn’t be on campus – WaPo
Now that asking and telling has ceased to be problematic in military circles, ROTC has resurfaced as a national issue: Will universities such as Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools be opened to Reserve Officers’ Training Corps since colleges can no longer can argue that the military is biased against gays and therefore not welcome? . . .
Will the Ivies have the courage for such stands? I’m doubtful. Only one of the eight Ivy League schools — Cornell — offers a degree in peace studies. Their pride in running programs in women’s studies, black studies, and gay and lesbian studies is well-founded, but schools have small claims to greatness so long as the study of peace is not equal to the other departments when it comes to size and funding.
At Notre Dame, on that 1989 visit and several following, I learned that the ROTC academics were laughably weak. They were softie courses. The many students I interviewed were candid about their reasons for signing up: free tuition and monthly stipends, plus the guarantee of a job in the military after college. With some exceptions, they were mainly from families that couldn’t afford ever-rising college tabs.
To oppose ROTC, as I have since my college days in the 1960s, when my school enticed too many of my classmates into joining, is not to be anti-soldier. I admire those who join armies, whether America’s or the Taliban’s: for their discipline, for their loyalty to their buddies and to their principles, for their sacrifices to be away from home. In recent years, I’ve had several Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans in my college classes. If only the peace movement were as populated by people of such resolve and daring.
ROTC and its warrior ethic taint the intellectual purity of a school, if by purity we mean trying to rise above the foul idea that nations can kill and destroy their way to peace. If a school such as Harvard does sell out to the military, let it at least be honest and add a sign at its Cambridge front portal: Harvard, a Pentagon Annex.
HT: AoS
Posted by ZIP on Thursday, December 30, 2010, at 11:31 am | 
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Hmmm, hang with the ROTC or hang with the Taliban … No, I mean HANG with the Taliban.
What to do? What to do?
Higher education is wasted on the dumbfucks.
Gawd.. Just when you think they have said the dumbest shit ever they up it be posting something like this.. I’m so glad he respects those who join the Taliban. maybe some of them could come to his house for Christmas diner and roast his chestnuts.
By posting.. (shit)
Wait — first he says he wishes more people in the peace movement had the honor and drive of the Iraq War vets he’s met, then he said ROTC weakens the ethics of colleges? This dude’s head is so far up his ass, shit is coming out of his mouth.
I’m choosing to ignore the comment he made about admiring people who join the Taliban because, well, my blood pressure just can’t take it.
Maggie says:
Hmmm, hang with the ROTC or hang with the Taliban … No, I mean be HUNG by the Taliban.
Fixed it.
as a disabled vet I found that article to be so sickening I had to leave it for a bit.
Its obvious this thing was a coward that enrolled in college only to escape the draft and was then fully indoctrinated into the pacifistic mindset many of us have allowed them to practice through our own personal contributions.
you’re welcome you giant pile of shit.
The WaPo, NYT, MSM (devil’s media) are so obviously part of the movement to destroy our country.
This latest example of Communist propaganda is almost as disgusting as the NYT writer recently praising Mao, and Krugman calling death panels a good cost-saving move.
Communist-Islam alliance.
So Colman, you admire a man who buggers goats, stones women, and beheads men who doesn’t believe as they do?
ROTC on college campuses liberalizes the military. I’m ok with that.
Wow, I see years away from the Washington Post, still doesn’t get one of their columnist’s IQ above room temperature.
“Hitler could have been waited out. He might have been overthrown by his own government. Who knows? To have 50 million people killed: Hitler would have died within 10 years no matter what he did.”
“I admire those who join armies, whether America’s or the Taliban’s”
Stuck on stupid…lifetime edition.
Tucker Carlson gets skewered (and rightfully so) for his extreme comments on Vick, yet someone who applauds Americans joining up with the Taliban (aka, treason) gets a pass.
The intellectual purity of a school? Is that the academic version of the Nazi Parties Aryan purity of the German race? Yep, that’s the parallel alright.
“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
—Thucydides (460BC–395BC), Greek historian
Nice to see this idiot get taken apart in the comments.
And talk about “softie” courses!! “Peace studies” always contains the idiots who can’t deal with hard science, statistics, or even writing/literature concentrations. Always the least intelligent & smelliest people on campus.
Pacifism & non-violence ONLY work when the other side abides by civilized rules. The enemies we face today do NOT. Its a sure way to societial suicide.
When I read that on Drudge this morning I was wondering why this professor wants to teach in America.
I predicted this is what would be exposed when DADT would be repealed. It was never about DADT, it was about loathing the US military.
Now the fig leaf of DADT is gone, and these radical lunatics have been exposed for the America-hating fools that they are.
Intellectual purity? What, like the intellectuals in Rome, Greece? Of course they had no armies. Russia? Iraq? Canada? Where? Cuba? France? Where?
As someone on another web site said, this is a sheep that loves the sheepdog there to protect him but does not want to acknowledge, be near or even feed the sheepdog because he, as a sheep, is “superior”.
Obviously this “professor” has never been out of his mommies basement.
Another case of Wa-Po “excellence” in dipshit elitism.
The moronic author of this stupidity, Colman McCarthy, should offer himself up as proof his way works. He should go to Pakistan, join the Taliban, al Qaeda, or go the ME and join Hamas, Hezbollah or some other such group and see how long he stays alive. He has principles, after all.
Put your money where your mouth is.
Of course he won’t since he’s fundamentally a coward who doesn’t really believe what he preaches. He’s just in it for the money and the recognition/spotlight.
We should bring one of them over and turn him loose in his neighborhood. Paint a big templar cross on his door.
Watch how fast the jack-wagon starts crying for the cops, the military, the coast guard, special forces, swat, the fire marshal …
The ROTC should also have a home-school group, for those sane enough to avoid the public education system. I refuse to call this higher education…