{"id":21327,"date":"2010-11-27T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21327"},"modified":"2010-11-27T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T13:57:07","slug":"keep-harvard-out-of-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21327","title":{"rendered":"Keep Harvard out of range"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter, a student at Harvard, sends us a link from the Harvard Crimson written by student Sandra Korn entitled “Keep ROTC out of Range<\/a>“. Obviously, Korn is a student for a reason – she teeters on the edge of being an ignorant twit in her opinion piece. Korn tries to make the point that allowing Harvard to reinstate the ROTC program in the event that the military’s policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is rescinded shouldn’t be a foregone conclusion. She makes several false allegations to illustrate her blunt point;<\/p>\n

[T]he U.S. Department of Defense has faced allegations of abuse ranging from torturing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to training Latin American soldiers in anti-humanitarian tactics and principles at the School of the Americas. The Iraq War alone has seen torture at Abu Ghraib, the Haditha massacre, and the horrifying shootings by Blackwater military contractors in Baghdad, as well as approximately 100,000 civilian deaths. Wikileaks recently exposed that within the last decade, the U.S. armed forces have engaged in countless non-humanitarian and debatably illegal practices in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. has provided military aid in support of Israel\u2019s aggressive actions against Palestinian civilians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sandra only has allegations, yet in her mind those allegations prove guilt. “Torturing prisoners” is completely a judgment call. If waterboarding is the worst thing that happened to prisoners, they weren’t tortured. The Abu Ghraib incident was carried out by soldiers themselves. Naked pyramids weren’t concocted in the halls of the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

Sandra, did you notice that no one has been convicted in the Haditha case yet? I wonder why. If you’reconvinced that the military is training Latin American soldiers to commit atrocities against their own populations, maybe you should talk to talk to some one who was actually at the School instead of the paranoid peacenik professors who’ve obviously wrongly informed you.<\/p>\n

Time and again, Korn praises the people serving in the military, yet she charges that the “Department of Defense” committed all of these things she considers horrible. Where is this machine called the Department of Defense? The people she claims to admire are the folks who would have to commit these “crimes” – there is no one to blame except real people.<\/p>\n

So I submit that the government cut off all of the funding and grants to Harvard until they stop churning out utter twits like Sandra Korn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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