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Harvard's arrogance toward the military and its men and women is an important facet of the ROTC debate which must be addressed. Not merely the standard left-wing, anti-military sentiment of many students, but the subtler arrogance of the contemporary Harvard mind--an arrogance which infects even the pro-ROTC side of the debate...
Aesop said, "its easy to be brave from a safe distance." He was right. For now we continue to debate ROTC on campus and pontificate about military policy. But there's a big world out there full of sacrificing men and women who could teach us a thing or two. Let's open our eyes and ears to them for a change. And let's bring ROTC back to campus with a bit of humility...
...places, what kind of training cadets go through, how well-prepared they are to honorably lead soldiers into battle when they graduate? People at Harvard have their cute anti-militarisms and their stereotypes about the bigoted homophobes in military barracks. But they can't erase the fact that the men and women in the armed services hold their lives out to us each and every day and say "here, this is for you and your freedom." It's a precious gift that should be treated like gold. Can we give it nothing more than indifference and contempt...
...result of unschooled insensitivity. It came from that dark side of man's nature which most assuredly spans the boundaries of class and education. Theodore J. Kaczynski was a Harvard man, wasn't he? And I recall that Fidel Castro, Ted Bundy, and Dr. Josef Mengele were "educated" men. Schooling can't wipe away bloodlust and evil from the human spirit--it paints them nicer colors, making them all the more horrible indeed...
...unreasonable to push for the University's full acceptance of ROTC. Or, at least, that it's unreasonable to welcome ROTC without conceding that it should undergo that "liberalizing force." But it's not as unreasonable as Harvard's 30-year cold war with the military and its men and women--who, although imperfect like all of us, devote their lives to our freedom, our ability to pursue the lives we will and our security within these ivory towers...