{"id":21675,"date":"2010-12-30T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21675"},"modified":"2010-12-30T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T15:54:17","slug":"why-rotc-shouldnt-be-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21675","title":{"rendered":"Why ROTC shouldn’t be on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, the clown-monkey, Colman McCarthy, who wrote this Washington Post<\/a> commentary is also director of the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, DC. Here’s a quotation from one of his lectures so you can judge the dimness of his bulb;<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it’s really not surprising that he opposes an educated military force. But here’s how an anti-intellectual conversation with him goes;<\/p>\n

During our discussion, he took modest pride at having raised more than a billion dollars for Notre Dame, and expressed similar feelings about the university’s ROTC program. More than 700 student-cadets were in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. Few universities, public or private, had a larger percentage of students in uniform then. The school could have been renamed Fort Hesburgh.<\/p>\n

When I suggested that Notre Dame’s hosting of ROTC was a large negative among the school’s many positives, Hesburgh disagreed. Notre Dame was a model of patriotism, he said, by training future officers who were churchgoers, who had taken courses in ethics, and who loved God and country. Notre Dame’s ROTC program was a way to “Christianize the military,” he stated firmly.<\/p>\n

I asked if he actually believed there could be a Christian method of slaughtering people in combat, or a Christian way of firebombing cities, or a way to kill civilians in the name of Jesus. Did he think that if enough Notre Dame graduates became soldiers that the military would eventually embrace Christ’s teaching of loving one’s enemies?<\/p>\n

The interview quickly slid downhill. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the military has nothing to do with turning our cheek, nor does it have anything to do loving our enemies…well, besides hastening their departure from this life to one in which they can answer for their behavior in this life. <\/p>\n

Since the freedom to worship how we please is one of the reasons that countless colonial-era immigrants came here before we were a nation a strong military defends that right from foreign enemies who’d like to force their religion on us. Even the dimwitted McCarthy should find something to be grateful for that we have a strong military, a military that counts devout Catholics in it’s ranks.<\/p>\n

Of course, McCarthy goes on to tell us how much he supports and admires the troops and ROTC Cadets, but of course, he can’t keep a straight face;<\/p>\n

At Notre Dame, on that 1989 visit and several following, I learned that the ROTC academics were laughably weak. They were softie courses. The many students I interviewed were candid about their reasons for signing up: free tuition and monthly stipends, plus the guarantee of a job in the military after college. With some exceptions, they were mainly from families that couldn’t afford ever-rising college tabs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ROTC and its warrior ethic taint the intellectual purity of a school, if by purity we mean trying to rise above the foul idea that nations can kill and destroy their way to peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, we can’t “Peace Studies” our way to peace, either, numbskull. You need to peddle that shit to our enemies.<\/p>\n

More from Moe Lane<\/a>. Thanks to Zedchek for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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