Now your getting it, maybe there will be no reason for you to be sent to the camps for reprogramming!
This freak equates our military with the Taliban: those brave folk who blow up great, ancient art and brutalize women and children beyond comprehension. Deeply intellectual take.
To equate taliban terrorists to our patriots shows all you need to know about this wimp.
"At Notre Dame, on that 1989 visit and several following, I learned that the ROTC academics were laughably weak. They were softie courses."
I'm not sure how the author comes to this conclusion. For a course to count for credit, it must meet the requirements set forth by the university's accreditor, otherwise no credit could be given, not even elective credit. However, he says the students took them for easy credit, which means the courses were accredited.
I also find it hard to believe a large number of the Notre Dame cadets and midshipmen were just pursued ROTC for a scholarship. While there are plenty who go the ROTC route for a scholarship opportunity, I would think the majority at Notre Dame would be motivated by service, especially in a post 9/11 world.
In some cases, accreditors have rated ROTC courses as directly substitutable for curriculum required courses, or for required electives. For example, due to the significant amount of writing and speaking assignments in Air Force ROTC, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools allowed some ROTC courses to substitute for the technical writing course required in engineering majors at my university.
Some of the elite schools claim ROTC instructors do not meet the requirements for an Assistant Professor, however Air Force ROTC requires ROTC instructors to have masters degrees. The simple solution would be for similar requirements on Army and Navy ROTC in those schools.
Sure, ROTC classes were not as demanding as thermodynamics or controls theory, but the difference is if you screwed up in ROTC, you lost your post university employment and perhaps your scholarship if you were on a ROTC scholarship. If you do poorly in a regular class, you just retook it.
Ivy Leaguers send people to war, isn’t that enough. :)
Look at this clown’s Wikipedia entry. He’s beneath contempt. His theory, distilled, is that we need to never meet violence with violence. No matter how many people die in the process (his Hitler quote is 50,000,000...) wait the evil out and non violence will absolutely work.
He’s also a self-avowed anarchist. Oh goody, there’s a political theory that works on a large scale.
I hope he knows that the intellectuals (which I’m sure he considers himself to be) are the second to be killed by totalitarians, right after their favorite racial/ethnic whipping people.
I’ve heard all of the lame excuses and arguments over the years. Let’s compare ROTC with African American or Women’s Studies programs and then we can talk about standards and academic rigor.
The real reason of course, is that these elitist snobs hate America, they hate the military, and they are narrow minded bigots who will only allow those who agree with their one world view on their precious campus. Makes one regret that we did away with burning at the stake.
IIRC, it was back during the Vietnam War or just after.
The pantywaist who wrote this drivel seems to miss the FACT that ‘kum-biy-ya’ doesn’t translate well. Into Arabic, and nearly every other tounge. It is a pity he has a access to young minds in the DC area.
Seems to me that history refutes his position. Regardless, he's the same sanctimonious fool he's always been.
Quotations
"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."[5]
"I dress like a Republican so I can talk like an Anarchist."
Please send him to Afghanistan and he can explain to the Jihadists about his non-violent solution.
It is always easy preaching this nonsense in the West - where he can speak freely (and stupidly) because others will do violence on his behalf.