John Fund upset...Yale admitted member of "one of the most evil regimes"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

NO, not THAT regime...THIS one:

:evilgrin:

Why Did Yale Admit an Unrepentant Former Taliban Official?

John Fund

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-fund/why-did-yale-admit-an-unr_b_16865.html

I fear something very wrong is going on at Ivy League colleges that should concern liberals, conservatives and moderates. Don't believe me? Listen to Alan Dershowitz, a noted Harvard liberal and frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and noted feminist Camille Paglia. Last month, Harvard President Larry Summers, a former Clinton cabinet secretary, was forced to resign.

Dershowitz called Summers a victim of "an academic coup d'etat by...the die-hard left of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." Today, Camille Paglia has a searing piece in the New York Times saying that "corruption and cronyism" have become "systemic" in American higher education. She says humanities professors have fallen "under the sway of a ruthless guild mentality."

They are also following political correctness in truly strange new directions. Yale is giving a first-class education to a former high offiicial with the Taliban, one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century--the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001. Yale isn't talking.

To answer an obvious question : No, Sayd Rahmatullah Hashemi hasn't sincerely repented his views. The evidence is an eye-opening: article he wrote late last year in which he refers to Israel as "an American Al Queda" and says the Taliban "honestly practiced what they had learned in their religious schools. They did what they had been taught to do. Whether what they had been taught was good or bad is another subject." See my piece. "In some ways," Rahmatullah told the New York Times. "I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale." Shouldn't people of good will, both left and right, ask both Yale and the Bush State Department that issued his student visa if something is wrong with this?

[erpowers]

1. Bush and Dubai

Why did Fund not say this when Bush and his administration announced the Dubai ports deal? Why did the Bush Administration allow a company from country that supported the Taliban when just about every other country in the world denounced them? Why did the Bush Administration allow a company from a country that at least held money for the people who attacked us on 9/11? Why did the Bush Administration allow a company from a country to run our ports when that country laundered money for the people who attacked us on 9/11? Why did the Bush Administration allow a company from a country to run or ports when that country produced two of the 19 hijackers who attacked us on 9/11? I contend that Fund should be more concerned with the Dubai ports deal than Yale allowing a supposed former Taliban member to go to college there. Also, Fund should ask why Bush has such a close relationship with the Saudi Royal family?

[radio4progressives]

2. Excellent questions and well done, erpowers...

just before i came on to this post, wolfy on CNN was just interviewing one of the DUBAI brokers/buisness partners/owners (i'm not sure who it was..

wolfy poses a few questions on the question of national security (framing the issue as a serious national security issue to super majority of Americans) the Dubai guy acknowledge these concerns, and pressed home the fact that this is a done deal... in the course of the exchange, it suddenly dawned on me that the Bushies somehow forgot that we were engaged in a "long war on terra" - an enterprise that the bushies initiated themselves. I guess they forgot, who it was they declared war on?

Or maybe, the real truth is, the "war on terra" is a phony trumped up enterprise, soley intended to serve the agenda of the bush crime family and their minions - the war is against the American people, our democracy and our Constitution - and the national treasury is their little piggy bank to do with what they will.

In other words, what war on terra?

oh you mean 9/11? Was it the Saudi's or was it really Cheney?

And maybe the "hard left" at Yale rejected a misogynist or at the least a unapologetic sexist as a figure head representing their institution?

On the point of the OP, Dershowitz should take off his blinders and his seek solace in knowing that he joined the club of enablers of fascism in the United States, along with the PNAC'rs and the Tom Friedman's.

[cantstandbush]

3. There is much more to this than meets the ears and eyes.

This guy knows where a lot of the Taliban bodies are and could lead the US to some mighty high level terrorists..or at least their money trail. Then, on the other hand, he could lead us away from them. OR, he could just be an innocent victim of his religion. I heard him speak on NPR before Bush was President. He was pleading for real help from the US for agricultural and financial help to destroy the poppy crop to thwart the drug cartels in Afghanistan. He said the US was talking rhetoric but coming through with the resources they needed. At one time, he and his followers were in US good graces for their actions against the drug trade. However, he was upset because he felt that the Taliban were living up to their part of the bargain but the US was not. He wanted the US to pay less attention to the Buddha statues they had destroyed and more attention to helping the Afghani people. The Bush administration newly in office, gave them some amount of money that got everyone's panties in a wad when Bush first took office. I think the money was promised to them by the Clinton administration but i am not sure. We sure make alliances with some strange folks.

[Neil Lisst]

4. the way universities kiss ass to get such students is repugnant

oh, they do love to have their Arabian Princes, too, believe it!

[file83]

5. You have GOT to be kidding me! Here's a comparison:

This would be like granting a visa to the German Nazi Field Marshal, Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel to come study at Yale during 1943. Are we living in the Twilight Zone, or what?