VDH: two themes combined

[cema]

Someone in my friends feed has been complaining about certain elite universities, and (separately) Hacker News linked to articles questioning how much elite education is worth. This is one theme; the other one is Obama's policies, especially foreign.

Victor Hanson managed to combined them in one essay. I am not sure what to make of it, but it reads nice.

Comments

[dimrub.livejournal.com]

> our bombing Iran would likely result in the obliteration of Israel by its dear neighbors

LOL

[tandem-bike.livejournal.com]

that was a profound, well-thought-out, literary comment. THANK YOU!

[eta-ta.livejournal.com]

double LOL. Or should it be ROFL?

[dimrub.livejournal.com]

Any way you like it. I'm not even sure what is funnier, the proposition that the only thing that's been stopping Israel's 'neighbors' from obliterating it is US's failure to bomb Iran, or the fact that 2 out of 4 Israel's actual neighbors have peace accords with Israel, and the remaining 2 are not in the position to harm Israel in any significant way.

[eta-ta.livejournal.com]

let's not get facts in the way of emotionalizing. "Empathy", remember?

Although I think this is funnier: "bombing Iran would likely result in ... in a couple more 9/11s here".

A recycled "Don't start war with Iraq! We'll anger whole Muslim world and get multiple 9/11s here!" cries of 2001