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Now Yale Embarrasses the Idea of the Western University

Akagi2 Wrote: Aug 19, 2009 7:23 PM
I've heard of it. I reject the premise though. Japan compared to the US was so weak they really had no chance to defeat and occupy the US. The hope was the US would grow tired of the war (and the "sneak attack" aspect made this very doubtful)and just let Japan have East Asia, Japan didn't have the ability (or desire) to occupy the US.

And that holds true for the Nazis too.

I can't think of a regime more different than the CSA than the Nazis, it would have struck terror deep in their hearts. The Confederacy was not all that anti-Jewish and no more than the North. Judah Benjamin who was Jewish served as the CSA 1st Attorney General, 2nd Secretary of War, and 3rd (and last) Secretary of State.


A good alternate...

When I was a graduate student at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I came to the then-tentative conclusion that I would probably never encounter a morally weaker, more cowardly group of people than college administrators.

While there are exceptions to this rule and there are other institutions that regularly exhibit as much moral cowardice as universities do, nearly 40 years later my conclusion is no longer tentative.

What prompted this conclusion in the 1970s was seeing a handful of radical students take over classrooms at Columbia and shut down the university while professors and deans, individuals whose lives...

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