After reading the rat excrement article by Colman, it reminded me that we must keep the “high priority fumigation” of dictatorial juggernaut statist monopoly University faculty and leadership.

The fungus that Colman spewed in that article was reprehensible.

I think I should like to see the original work you wrote on this. I’m intrigued.

The peaceniks will always be with us, no matter which way the country goes. Sometimes they are right, at least partly. Usually when they are right it is for the wrong reason and with the wrong methods.

When a nation decides to go to war, it should be all out to win immediately, forget the political considerations…or NOT AT ALL.

He teaches courses on nonviolence? He earns a paycheck from this?

Apparently, he’s trying. Trying very hard:

teaches courses on nonviolence at four area universities

Hmmm…sounds as if Colman is one of those vagabond academics, who cobbles together meager paying teaching gigs at several different colleges, in hopes that the sums of those paychecks covers his bills.

Perhaps his former bosses at the WaPo took pity on him and tossed him a real paying gig.

As for what he wrote…thanks, Colman.

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?

The interview quickly slid downhill.

This is how he addressed the retiring president of Notre Dame? What an insufferable prig Colman must be. What a snob. What a…

…a wonderful oublic face of the anti-ROTC movement! Wonderful, that is, for those of us who support ROTC.

The worst thing we can do to the anti-ROTC movement: make Colman McCarthy its public face. Put him on Fox News, often. Give him the chance to say lots of wonderful things on tape, like ROTC and its warrior ethic taint the intellectual purity of a school. By “intellectual purity,” does McCarthy mean all those courses colleges teach on sexuality (with for-credit field trips to sex shops) or Che or the films of Keanu Reaves?

Make the anti-ROTC movement wear Colman McCarthy, like a sandbag necklace.

Non-Christians do not know how God uses nations to punish nations; how Jesus brought a sword along with Grace and Salvation. They have no comprehension of Law and Gospel,

Another liberal… another military hating liberal. He’d hate me I’m sure despite his “peace loving” nature. I’m an evil Soldier who wages war and firebombs the innocent… But you know I do it only because I hate the “browns” of the world….

His argument is tiresome and frankly, its becoming annoying.

P.S. note, all remarks are made with extreme sarcasm (except he last one,)

and I have better things to do.

However, I’m happy he’s not anti-soldier, be they American or Taliban (like I said, an ass to equate the two) since he admires their discipline (by using civilians as shields?), their principles (firebombing cities?) and their resolve (to obtain free tuition and a guaranteed JOB?). Also, I’ll bet his peace classes are a lot more rigorous than those softie ROTC classes, which he must have taken all of in order to judge them.

Like I said, the guy’s an ass. Must be a real slow news day @ WaPo.

I read this op-ed early today and was furious, absolutely livid, though I’ve calmed down now. It’s hard for me to understand how these 60s-era activists can write pieces like this with a straight face and expect to be taken seriously. It’s 40 years later, and they’re still stuck in this incomprehensible mindset. There’s just no dealing with some people, they can’t be reasoned with or understood or debated. It’s crazy that these people are considered “academics”

And Congress needs to uphold the law.
And the executive branch needs to enforce the Solomon Amendment.

No. They want their cake. They want to eat it. When they are finished they want to spit it out in your face and all over the floor. And they want to make you get down and lick it up.

And the fact he equated U.S. troops with the Taliban pretty much makes him not worth reading or listening to.

. . .it can easily be argued that gibberish like this helps our side due to the damage it does to the opposition. At this point, from a macro perspective, our greatest task is to convince the still too-substantial portion of the population that does not pay close enough attention to daily events that these people are in fact, just as crazy as they seem. Articles like this provide excellent documentation of the fact. For every nodding peacenik there are five people potentially having their eyes opened a bit more.

Given time and power they will destroy themselves, per their own construction.

which is something along the lines of “ROTC warrior ethic threatens the intellectual purity of the school”.

I shouldn’t be suprised that people not only believe that but dare to say it in public.

I didn’t need to read a word of his drivel past that line. I did though, and am now slightly less intelligent for it.

if there is a Christian way to stand idly by and allow truly evil men slaughter innocents? Is there a Christian way to stand by and watch thuggish brutes rape and brutalize young women and little girls? Is there a truly Christian way to stand idly by spouting his smug pieties while truly evil men enslave entire populations, strip them of their dignity and humanity?

If THAT is what HIS version of Christianity requires then I want NO PART OF IT.

An ROTC program at, say, Harvard would mean that eventually there would be Harvard-educated officers, like a certain lt. Kerry, entering the military.

Every ivy-league grad I’ve met has been an insufferable jerk with far more attitude than ability. Perfect recipe for getting soldiers killed in combat and setting idiotic policy behind a desk.

As much as I dislike the principal of banning ROTC, I have to say that I’m OK with the result. I really don’t want to see my son serving under a Kerry or Kennedy, particularly in a shooting war.

…I think he’s saying that low-income riff-raff should be denied the opportunity for an Ivy-league education.

I think he’s also saying that a degree in War Studies is widely available. This is in spite of the fact that the people who most badly want to not go boot-stomping through other countries are the people who would get shot at, should this, uh, degree, be put into action.

I also think that he’s saying that twenty-one years ago, the ROTC program didn’t have as strong academics as, say, the Notre Dame football program — which, of course, is irrelevant to the world as it is now (with West Point taking high honors in Forbes’ yearly rankings each year), and master’s degrees being nearly required to be considered for promotion as an officer.

He may also be saying that women’s studies, black studies (is that witchcraft? Someone should ask Christine O’Donnell ), and gay and lesbian studies makes for stronger academics.

The worst part of this article is this, though:

“In recent years, I’ve had several Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans in my college classes. If only the peace movement were as populated by people of such resolve and daring.”

1.) This assumes that the peace movement is more than a dying twitch, at this point. Oh, and President Obama killed it for them. I hope he’s thankful.
2.) It is their experience as veterans that makes them what they are, resolute and daring. It is training to avoid being killed that gives them the edge they have, mentally and physically. There is no equivalent for that in Peace Studies, which is why military veterans look like Congressman Allen West, and Peace Corps veterans look like Chris Matthews.

You can’t wish for the world you want. But you can train to change it to what you want it to be. The military is that dedicated. Nobody else is.

Lastly, I’m not sure what offends me more: Comparing the US Military to the Taliban, or mentioning the Marine Corps in the same sentence as the Peace Corps.

The following is the Soldier’s Creed, which American Soldiers memorize in their initial training and regularly recite throughout their career. The 4 lines with asterisks are known as the Warrior Ethos. Following the creed are the Army values. I am curious what about our ethics and values he finds so offensive – never mind, I know exactly what washed up hippies with more experience smoking pot than having intellectual discourse find offensive about our values.
I hope there is a special place in hell for people like that. Luckily for him, people like me put our lives on hold, and on the line, to protect him as well as we can from getting there sooner. We also give of ourselves to enable him to spew his filth. When I think of those who have given their all to defend this man and his right to act like a jack***, I weep.

SOLDIER’S CREED
I am an American Soldier.
I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values.
*I will always place the mission first.
*I will never accept defeat.
*I will never quit.
*I will never leave a fallen comrade.
I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.
I am an expert and I am a professional.
I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat.
I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
I am an American Soldier.

ARMY VALUES
Loyalty
Duty
Respect
Selfless Service
Honor
Integrity
Personal Courage