Posted on 08/20/2006 5:09:36 PM PDT by PghBaldy
Which Americans happily subsidize at the pump which goes back to commie professors to educate males from other countries who will blow up our children. My head might explode. Maybe it just did.
Which begs the question ... by what criteia are these 'stoonts' chosen in Saudi Arabia?
Are these the best and brightest, chosen for academic excellence?
Those that show a special interest in America and our values?
State lottery?
Lincoln bedroom donations?
We can have the program explained to us in a way we accept it .. but ... I want to know whom is getting in and why them and not others?
"Schools compete for thousands of Saudi students"
To paraphrase a popular advertising slogan, "Schools Compete ... We Lose"
I wonder how many are chemistry majors.
That's what it says. The middle east was a garbage dump prior to the discovery of oil and the construction of infrastructure to get the oil out of the ground, etc. Basically, the place was backwards so this date is about right.
Meanwhile, American kids can't get into these schools......
The saudis shouldn't be here, they shouldn't be in our heartland, they should be in SAUDI. With all their money, they can build schools there, WHY come here?
And this being "brokered" by our President and King Abdullah ... if true ... stinks to high heaven.
Is there any aspect of our country that is not up for sale?
Why don't we show the Saudis how to build their own colleges in their own country?
PING.
Selling out our country for money. Why doesn't this surprise me from academia?
More Arabs, guess we haven't reached our quota /s
In Texas state schools the tuition for foreign students is only slightly higher than in-state, but the tuition for out of state Americans is way higher. I think they add like a 75$ dollar "foreign student fee" per semester hour, but if you're just from Oklahoma you pay more than double the in-state charge.
Here at K-State we are fully integrated to the military-industrial complex....hehe.
Gen. Meyers is moving here, we have just created the Security Studies MA and are working on the Ph.D, a first in the nation.
We are also home to Agri/Bio-Warfare research. They just sealed off the top floor to one of my favorite buildings. (The floor doesn't even exist in the elevators or stairwells anymore...hehe. It's like it never existed. But last semester when they were doing the work I was asking the guys about it, sure enough, it's DHS.
And yes, we have a steady supply of soldier/students from Riley. We also have a major contigent of Air Force officers on campus here. Some foreign military come, but mostly from developing/Mid-East nations. You'll get Sudanese officers, Egyptians, Jordanians...
As for the Jihadist among us, I'm sure there are some. But there were some before we made the KSU campus "Saudi friendly". (You should have seen the Presidents visit last spring...
But the big push for this came last spring when the Saudi Ambassador came for a visit. These guys drop massive amounts of cash, and it is a little disconcerting to see the well armed Saudi security guys bossing our cops around, but hey, anything for diplomacy and donations.
I was there for the big shin-dig in the Union when the umma came out of the woodwork to visit the ambassador. The universities love int'l student for the cold cash the generate. Many of these students are not jihad material. Some probably are. Most are simply pleased as hell to be in America. This is party time for them....Culture shock is an issue, though.
One funny story-a couple of Saudi students live in my apartment complex here in Manhattan, KS. They didn't understand the laundry room. They had never seen such a thing. And when I explained that they could do their own laundry while watching baseball they were shocked and amused. It seems these guys had never done laundry, or any other housekeeping for that matter. The were mildly preplexed when they realized that as young men in an American colege they would have to take care of themselves.
Within a week they had muslim girls over to clean their apartment, cook for them and do their laundry. I think this is one of the services provided by out big new Islamic Center next to campus...hehe.
Oh well, they pay in cash, and if they never go to class and spend their days in the Islamic Center who really cares, right? hehe
Notice how university administrators go overseas to RECRUIT foreign students.. This has been going on for decades. Job security for the leftist academics.
15 of 19.
Did you have to explain indoor plumbing and showers, too?
Some foreign military come, but mostly from developing/Mid-East nations. You'll get Sudanese officers, Egyptians, Jordanians...
It's US military policy and has been for almost 40 years that any foreign national attending a US military training course MUST graduate, even if they failed to meet course standards. I had a few in my Infantry Officers Basic Course (IOBC) at Fort Benning in 1980. We had a few from Upper Volta or some place like that. Some of those went to Ranger school and got their tabs. Story goes that waaaaay back when, a foreign student flunked out and when he got home he was summarily executed for bringing national shame by failing.
Oh well, they pay in cash, and if they never go to class and spend their days in the Islamic Center who really cares, right? hehe
I care. If they're in class it can pretty well be certain they're not actively plotting a terrorist attack. On the other hand...in the Islamic center...that's not necessarily the case....right?
If no one else got it, I did. Thanks for a good line! :o)
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