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...repealed,” Armini said. “We have military recruiters on campus today, and we would have recruiters on campus even if this policy were changed.” The legislation comes on the verge of what appears to be shifting public opinion regarding the military??s ban. While a 1993 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that only 40 percent of people favored allowing openly gay people to serve in the military, a 2006 Zogby poll showed that 73 percent of military personnel were comfortable with gays and lesbians. The Military Readiness Act received bipartisan...
...spectre is haunting America–the spectre of Communism, obvi. 2007’s certainly not good for democracy, at any rate. The rich-poor gap in the United States of Capitalism just keeps on gapping, and the U.S. military??s actions in Iraq have contributed to a political situation that’s less “independent state” and more “state of confusion” as of the new year. Across the pond, old-school Communist stronghold the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the superpower perpetually...
...kamikazes—much like Islamist suicide bombers—were fed a false account of their own cultural heritage. They were told that the samurai code, “bushido,” required self-sacrifice rather than surrender. But the Japanese military??s mantra repeated a fabricated history—according to Thomas, “many ancient Japanese warriors had been prisoners of war.” The scholarly Admiral Kurita penetrated through the “bushido” ruse. Too many of his countrymen...
Sahil K. Mahtani’s column titled “The University Is a Drama Queen” (December 1) provides a refreshing perspective on the military??s relation to Harvard—or lack thereof. Like Mahtani, I certainly object to the military??s discriminatory policies and agree that they need reform, but breaking all ties with our nation’s system of defense is not the answer. It is much easier to change an organization from the inside out. If Harvard is not producing any substantial number of military recruits, then...
...University has not pressured Congress to repeal the amendment. But we also disagree with the some of the indulgent, sensationalistic, and ill-founded protests against military recruiters.Unlike its position during the Vietnam War, the University now does not object to military recruiters per se, but rather to the military??s exclusion of gays. By excluding gays, the military is, by extension, excluding a portion of the Harvard community, which the University’s anti-discrimination policy clearly forbids. We agree with this rationale. To be sure, we have concerns about other military practices as well, such...