How amusing that those of us with the "simplistic" Cold War view of the world have been vindicated, and those of you with your "nuanced" rationales for appeasement and surrender have been discredited.

They have found this article, and they can't address the substance Mr. Adams' editorial. They also can't admit the truth about the kangaroo courts at Duke and too many other universities.

I am surprised any alum gives Duke one red cent of money. (Any donations to institutions that promote leftover communist "identity politics" are just that, Red cents).

I went to a university with much of this same nonsense, and any fundraising solicitations from it go in the trash, unless there is a business reply envelope in which I will send back a letter explaining excatly why I will not donate.

I am polite to current students of the college who somehow get my phone number and make fundraising calls, as they are just doing their scholarship jobs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of them agree, or even cheer, when I explain to them why I won't give the campus one red cent.

Of course, these universities still receive...

Remember when the Commiecrats turned Dhimmicrats claimed that Iraq was the "bad" war, diverting attention from Afghanistan the "good" war? And that Al Quaeda (sp?) wasn't in Iraq?

Well, the fact was that Al Quaeda was in Iraq. (Now Zarquawi and his goons are wiped out). The fact is also that Iraq was and is a cakewalk compared to Afghanistan. Iraq had and has an educated population, oil revenue, and an even more strategic location that Afghanistan, the back country, ever will be.

Remember when the Commiecrats turned Dhimmicrats claimed the divisions between ethnic groups in Iraq were too steep to deal with? The fact is that the ethnic and tribal divisions in Afghanistan are even more severe. Indeed, the only reason the...

...who claimed that Iraq was an unwinnable quagmire? Now, that country is remarkably quiet.

This is not to say that Afghanistan will be a cakewalk. Contrary to the liberal Demunist claims that Iraq the "bad" war took away from Afghanistan the "good" war, the fact is that Iraq was always an easier task. Iraq has oil revenue and a mostly educated population while Afghanistan has neither.

Buchanan's pigheaded isolationism is tiresome. Would he prefer a Taliban regime remaining a safe haven for those who attack the United States?

You got it, Rowly. I am hoping that enough of this political crap nationwide (Duke University, Harvard, Berkeley, oh too many other places) will lead to a re-thinking of the wisdom of students and their parents spending, or even worse, borrowing, piles of money for the crap the students receive.

Now if you are ready (or if your son/daughter is ready) for a major university, then by all means go for it (meaning that the student has a definite goal for the future and a definite plan or pathway to get there).

But if the student is "undeclared"? Forget it. Go explore in a cheap community college for a while and get direction. One can always transfer later. Heck, even a year spent working a menial job by day and partying by...

Junior colleges are quite a superior way to go for high school graduates who are very bright but "undeclared", directionless, or otherwise clueless. Sending bright but otherwise lost students like that directly to Universities is like sending lambs to the slaughterhouse. The Junior College system not only needs to be expanded, frankly for lower division it might be a good idea if it was mandatory.

From his appeasing of neo-Tsarist Russia (I would call them neo-Tsarist rather than neo-Soviet), to his obtuse and almost pathological desire to blame the Israelis and forgive the bloodthirsty muslim savages, I wonder what happened to Pat Buchanan. I won't call him anti-Semite; that's too easy a smear, but something is truly wrong with the man.

While I understand skepticism of the goo-goo-for-globalism types, to excuse a newly aggressive Russia and to excuse bloodthirsty muslim savages is just beyond the pale, Pat.