{"id":19207,"date":"2010-05-22T07:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T12:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19207"},"modified":"2010-05-22T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T12:22:23","slug":"marine-defends-kagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19207","title":{"rendered":"Marine defends Kagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Merrill, currently a captain serving in the Marine Corps, and former Harvard Law School student, has an opinion piece in the Washington Post entitled “A veteran’s Harvard ally: Elena Kagan<\/a>” in which he weakly tries to convince us that Supreme Court nominee really does support the military and veterans despite the fact that she wouldn’t allow military recruiters the same support as other recruiters at Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n

Apparently, his proof of her support for the military is that she got free coffee for all of the students and took veterans to dinner once-a-year;<\/p>\n

She was charismatic and intimidating, and, most important, she gave students free coffee in the morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Around the time that Kagan sent the first of several e-mails criticizing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” she hosted a Veterans Day dinner for the few student-veterans attending Harvard Law. That was the first time I met Kagan. There was no agenda for the dinner, as best as I could tell, other than to thank us for our service. I don’t believe “don’t ask, don’t tell” ever came up. Either because of her charm or the quality of the food, I became one of her admirers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Merrill goes on to explain that, from his students point of view, he didn’t notice that recruiters’ efforts weren’t hindered by Kagan’s policies. And why would she discuss “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” with a couple of students who were no longer affected by the policy?<\/p>\n

Merrill makes the same mistake the most civilians make. They confuse the Left’s treatment of veterans with the way they treat the military. The Left treats veterans like they are victims, they treat active duty members of the military who are doing their jobs like they’re plague carriers. <\/p>\n

How many other student groups had annual dinners with Kagan on their respective “day”? Merrill doesn’t say, but he implies that because she paid for a dinner for a few veterans with department funds for a few years, she doesn’t deserve to be labeled anti-military. <\/p>\n

I don’t follow the logic. I can, however, name some of my professors who supported members of the military (since I attended college as both an active duty soldier and a veteran) who never bought me coffee or dinner. <\/p>\n

There’s more at Powerline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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