Last Sunday, a Taliban roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.In a separate incident, suicide bombers in Kabul tried to kill an Afghan official responsible for persuading former Taliban members to support the new democratic government. The official survived, but the blast killed the two bombers along with a 12-year-old girl and an elderly yogurt vendor.
Elsewhere, the Taliban killed four hostages--three Albanian Muslims and a German.
The current Taliban propagandist, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, vowed that "we will kill anyone who is helping the Americans."
John Fund interviews an American military officer: "I can't imagine explaining to my troops back there that while they just lost four of their comrades to the Taliban that one of America's most prestigious universities is giving a valued place as a student to a largely unrepentant Taliban official."
Meanwhile, Yale University has no comment.
4 comments:
Knuck,
You sound mad about this.
You can imagine how I feel about my alma mater admitting this character.
The enire academy has lost its mind, and the more elite the university, the crazier it has become.
Jamie Irons
Yale, 1969
Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Jamie,
I keep thinking that I will read of alumni coalescing and boycotting all donations to some of these places. I guess I have in mind the fact that those who graduate tend not to be as flakey as those who attend but don't make the cut.
Perhaps it's an organizational problem in forming the groups of tens necessary to start the fight. I also note that the fellows who have tried at Dartmouth are running into the institutional obstinacy associated with embedded Gramscians (for lack of a better descriptor).
They are thinking that they have to turn the other cheek.
Jamie, Let me apologize to you for these postings. I didn't mean to imply that all Yalies were whacko. The plain fact is that all elite universities suffer from this insane ultra-leftist malady. The Powerline guys have written about efforts to elect moderates to Dartmouth's alumni board. And look what happened to Larry Summers at Harvard.
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