{"id":29857,"date":"2012-05-07T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29857"},"modified":"2012-05-07T18:32:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:32:26","slug":"mcchrystal-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29857","title":{"rendered":"McChrystal in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

TT sends a link from the New York Times<\/a>‘ Elisabeth Bumuller who decides to take a look into General Stanley McCrystal’s Yale classroom to see how he faring among the pointy-headed crowd. It seems he’s doing better than an American general of the Vietnam era might have done;<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first day I came here, they were expecting a demonstration,\u201d General McChrystal, who is retired from the military, said in an interview after class, shortly before heading out to a New Haven bar for beers with his students. \u201cAnd I was mad because there were only nine people\u201d protesting his appointment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that isn’t the end of it. The students seem to be more mature than their teachers;<\/p>\n

At Yale the military is, for most students, a great unknown, and many in General McChrystal\u2019s class say they signed up out of curiosity. \u201cI would never have imagined myself three years ago in a course taught by a general,\u201d said Erik Heinonen, one of General McChrystal\u2019s students and a former Peace Corps volunteer.<\/p>\n

Some faculty members at Yale remain opposed to a retired celebrity general who does not hold their union card, a Ph.D., teaching at a civilian university, and say they are uncomfortable with his history of driving the secret commando raids that killed so many people in Iraq and Afghanistan. They also point out that the wars of the last decade have been unpopular on campus.<\/p>\n

But faculty members who support General McChrystal say that students distinguish between the warriors and the wars, and that Yale should include an option to learn firsthand about the military as part of a college education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is almost no antimilitary bias among students,\u201d said John Lewis Gaddis, a Yale history professor and the recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for biography, who has welcomed General McChrystal to Yale. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s true among the faculty.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I envy and admire those students for seeking knowledge from people who actually wrote history instead of just succumbing to the usual liberal drivel from people who only write about history. Yale is lucky to have McCrystal and I hope they continue to ignore the filthy 60s hippie beasts who are clinging to their tenure and sequestered behind the Ivy-covered walls safe from the realities of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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