This New York Post article
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hero_unwelcome_Zi3u1fwtRpo87vXAiAQfSN
leads me to ask:
Is it any surprise that a University that embraces “apartheid week” and hosts the likes of Ahmadinejad would also be a place where wounded veterans are jeered for sharing their opinion? Why should a man who served his country be called a racist for voicing his opinion at a forum expressly established to discuss whether the army should be allowed to recruit on Columbia’s campus? Did the veteran make the choice to accept faulty intelligence from a disaffected Iraqi –is it his fault we went to war? Does he spend his every waking hour recruiting, mostly, ignorant students to malign, libel, and demonize Israel and the American-right? Is he on record calling for the genocide of an entire nation?!
Following America’s shameful treatment of Vietnam War veterans (who also fought in a war that was imposed on them) our society was supposed to have repented. America’s abysmal treatment of its veterans prompted our government to pass an array of popular legislation aimed at ensuring that our soldiers and veterans would receive the respect and dignified assistance they deserved. Why than do ostensibly educated students –the cream of the crop- find it tolerable, if not commendable, to label our hero’s “racist”. Why do like-minded students, like the ones in this story, find it acceptable to prevent Ann Coulter, Michael Oran, and veterans from sharing their opinions, but are the first to support the proliferation of Ahmadinejad’s’ genocidal rants. Is this liberalism? How did the liberal cause become one half of the unholy alliance between "absolute freedom" Liberals and sharia-imposing Muslim extremists?
Columbia University may be an Ivy League school and an institution that I considered applying to, but it is also a collective voice for disoriented ethics and irrational activism.
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