Lecturer praises America in campus discussion
Kristen Healy, Collegian Staff
Issue date: 4/2/08 Section: News
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D'Souza is the author of a number of books, including the most recently published "What's So Great about Christianity." He has appeared on a number of news programs including Nightline, The O'Reilly Factor and the satirical Colbert Report on Comedy Central.
The lecture, which was sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Republican Club and the Young Americans Foundation, began with UMass Republican Club president Brad DeFlumeri introducing many of D'Souza's accomplishments, both in literature and politics.
D'Souza then began his lecture by talking about the United States' War on Terrorism and who the real enemy is that we are fighting. He compared this war to World War II, claiming that America's enemy then was not the Kamikaze suicide bombers, but the Japanese.
"Why now are we fighting this method of terrorism, when our efforts should be focused on a specific group?" he inferred.
"Terrorism is not an opponent, terrorism is a tactic. So who, then, is the enemy?" said D'Souza.
He then posed the question, "What about America has prompted such feelings of hatred from certain Muslims to offer up their lives in the attacks on September 11, 2001?"
In referring to the events on Sept. 11, D'Souza felt that the cultural left is responsible through looking back in history to the Carter and Clinton administrations.
On the topic of President Bush, D'Souza admitted that in hindsight, the war in Iraq was a mistake and the best course of action would have been to focus on Iran. He also noted, though, that President Bush did have to make a decision based on the information he had at the time.
"He made a decision in the exigency of war," said D'Souza.
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Ed Cutting
posted 4/02/08 @ 9:04 AM EST
There was a conflict in what he said.
First, that the incompetence of Jimmy Carter and then Bill Clinton led to the radical Islamists (like OBL) believing that America was a paper tiger that had no teeth. (Continued…)
Wow
posted 4/02/08 @ 11:14 PM EST
Wow. Just wow. So what we have to do is give up our freedom so that others can have it? We can't have our own values, we must follow fundamentalist Moslem values. (Continued…)
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