Posted on 05/09/2008 9:14:46 AM PDT by bs9021
Professors Against the War on Terror
by: Bethany Stotts, May 09, 2008
The complaint that the Iraq War is the result of a neoconservative conspiracy to unduly expanded U.S. interests abroad has become popular among professors and antiwar activists, as is the assertion that the War on Terror has undermined American civil liberties and destroyed America’s reputation abroad.
A new policy report by Politics professor Ian Lustick, published by the Independent Institute, is no different. However, the University of Pennsylvania professor’s report is unique in that he derives most of his inflammatory material from news outlets, including ABC News, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Time Magazine, Democracy Now, US World and News Report, and Al Jazeera English.
Lustick, a practicing Jew, believes that the War on Terror is a self-inflicted disaster promoted by a supremacist, neoconservative cabal intent on recreating the Crusades and Holy American Empire at the expense of innocent Muslim youth who only “sympathize” with the plight of the Palestinians and their violent methods. He also implicitly defends Palestinian activists working with charities “linked to Hamas or Islamic Jihad” as victims of an America “in search of enemies and self-justification.”
Characterizing the search for terrorists as “McCarthyite hysteria,” he writes,
“We overcame the McCarthyite anti-communist hysteria, including baseless fantasies of communist “sleeper cells” ready to take over the country...and went on to adjust psychologically, politically, and militarily to the real capacity of the Soviet enemy to incinerate our cities on a moment’s notice. Why...are we having such a difficult time calibrating our response to the problem of terrorism?”
Instead...“our leaders continue to conjure the images of these ragged bands of Muslim fanatics as if they were the historic enemies of the Christian West that they wish to promote”...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Gee... I guess it's too much to expect from these geniuses to read the "IRAQ LIBRATION ACT of 1998" which calls for the overthrow of the Saddam Regime and the establishment of a democratic form of government which then President Clinton signed into U.S law!
“Instead...“our leaders continue to conjure the images of these ragged bands of Muslim fanatics as if they were the historic enemies of the Christian West that they wish to promote”..”
They are historic enemies, moron.
Professors for Islamic Terrorism would be more intellectually honest and accurate
From a liberal website:
The Act found that Iraq had between 1980 and 1998 (1) committed various and significant violations of International Law, (2) had failed to comply with the obligations to which it had agreed to following the Gulf War and (3) further had ignored Resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. The Act declared that it was the Policy of the United States to support "regime change."
The Act was passed 360-38 in the U.S. House of Representatives[2] and by unanimous consent in the Senate.[3] US President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law on October 31, 1998. The law's stated purpose was: "to establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Liberation_Act
This guy just broke all records. He scores an amazing 14.4 on the Chomsky scale (the international standard metric for demented ravings).
Herr tabloid professor... vat do you tink of Britany und Lindsey?
“a practicing Jew”
He needs to stop practicing and start putting to practice.
Beware the university- leftwing mainstream media-complex.
To add insult to injury, Independent Institute Fellow Ivan Eland—the moderator at Lustick’s panel—recently defended Reverend Wright’s condemnation of America as a terrorist nation.
Do you know how much parents have to pay to send their kid to UPenn ??????? And they get THIS?
However, I fear most of those tuition paying parents agree with the prof.
He’s busy “practicing” saying KADDISH, the Jewish memorial prayer for the dead. When his planted seeds bear their fruit, he will be the one protesting American inaction while he falls to his knees. What’s 50,000 Jewish dead to him? Oh, well, his fellow leftists will still like him.
Yeh - I’d have given him a bonus for working in “hegemonic” or “neocolonial” but 14.4 ain’t bad.
Professor Lustick specializes in “hegemonic studies” & teaches a Grad Course thereon.
LOL! You can’t make this stuff up. BTT.
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