SCOTUS Rules on Military Recruiters

[Pistlpetet]

Do you have any other military service, or education credentials to try to impress us umeducated folk?

Reference my previous post.

 

[Flyerjosh]

Sorry that my little education is only a MS with dual majors in aeronautical engineering and public administration. I'll try and do better next life.

My (insert anatomical object here) is bigger than yours... yada yada yada... this is what drives me nutz about the typical flightinfo thread. No ability to discuss the topic without people falling into childish "playground" antics.

 

[schoolio]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187006,00.html

Yale's Disgrace Monday, March 06, 2006
By John Gibson

The fact that the former spokesman for the Taliban is now an honored student at Yale University — honored as in he was admitted even though completely unqualified — is an out and out outrage.
This is a guy who was once the spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan — the very same regime that hosted and protected Usama bin Laden while he was hatching the 9/11 plot.
His name is Rahmatullah Hashemi. He is now 27 years old, and he's been given a cushy free pass into Yale because he is some kind of star in the academic world. A real catch. You have to squeeze your brain a bit to imagine the Yale bigwigs whooping it up that they scored an actual Taliban official to be a Yalie, but evidently they did.
Rahmatullah told The New York Times: "In some ways I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale."
That is Yale's disgrace. This is a university that is the alma mater of the last three presidents. How could Yale actually want a terrorist spokesman on its campus? What is wrong with those people?

And by the way, the Taliban spokesman is taking a spot that some young American might have had. So if you know a kid who didn't get into Yale this year, you probably shouldn't bring up the fact his or her spot went to a Taliban terrorist mouthpiece.
Did Rahmatullah blow up the World Trade Center? No, probably not.
But look at the news Monday. We're talking about the rise of the Taliban again in rural Afghanistan. We're still killing the Taliban if we have half a chance. And Yale lets this one have a prized spot on the campus of one of the two or three top universities in the country?
I must ask again: What were they thinking?
Oh right, we don't sniff over what applicants think to decide whether they can be students at our best schools. We're not the thought police. Right.
But do we look at the applicant's record? How does the Yale archaeology department regard the new student who once represented the Taliban on a tour of America to justify the destruction of the centuries-old Buddhist statues carved into the side of a mountain? Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians screamed in agony as the Taliban shelled the ancient statues. And now he's a student in their midst?
This is the academic world gone completely insane — almost as if they contacted mad cow disease, an illness that chews holes in the brain.
Mr. Taliban should go home. Yale should send him back now. Absent a certificate from a major deprogramming institute, he has no place anywhere in America, least of all on the campus of one of this country's most prestigious universities.
By the way, think any fellow students had a parent or relative killed in the World Trade Center by Taliban protected jihadis sent by bin Laden? If there are such students at Yale — and there damn well should be — should they have to quietly endure the presence of an apparatchik of the machine that plotted and executed their loved ones' most horrible demise?
Yale should do what it encourages its students to do: think.

 

[Huggyu2]

NorthShore,
Did you take any classes on "tact" while in the Army?

 

[El-Rushbo]

NorthShore,
Educational credentials are no substitute for maturity and tact. I think this is where most feel you are lacking.

And yes, Yale has admitted a former Taliban member with a 4th grade equivalent education. Ever seen that Geico commercial with the cavemen at the nice resturaunt?...."Yea, next time try to do a little research."

 

[NorthShore]

A fourth grade education in school, but he was, roughly, the press secretary for a national government. Now maybe you don't like who he worked for (I sure don't), but he likely deserves some credit for "life experience".

And I really don't see why being part of the Taliban should disenamor him to so many republicans. Are the Taliban and the USA that the neo cons envision really so different? One state mandated religion, no freedom to dissent or to free speech, draconian punishments, subgugation of women, heck, change mohammed to Jesus and you've got Limbaugh, Cheney and Pat Robertson sporting wood like 17 year olds!!!!

 

[Mamma]

Not worth the time.

 

[NorthShore]

Take a valium son.

 

[Mamma]

Care to put up or shut up?
Didn't think so.
And before you ask, 24 years, 4 enlisted, 20 WO. So stuff it before you start.

And you want me on the valium??? I guess you have a few to spare!

 

[Pistlpetet]

http://onthefencefilms.com/blog/index.php?p=183

Another link about this Taliban F-stick. Mother of slain Seal goes to Yale.

I reccomend all those Yalies take a field trip over to AFG and look for diversity there. I am sure there are a few orange jump suits over there that fit.