Thursday, December 4, 2008

ROTC: Wrong in 1968 and Wrong Today

4 December 2008 Columbia Spectator column "ROTC: Wrong in 1968 and Wrong Today" by Andrew Lyubarsky CC '09.  Note:  Lyubarsky  writes that "All the respectable voices of the liberal establishment here, from University President Lee Bollinger to Professor David Eisenbach, have expressed that they would bring ROTC back with open arms once DADT is reversed."  Lyubarsky disagrees, citing the military as "an institution which invades sovereign nations, bombs cities with white phosphorus, and tortures detainees in secret prisons".  He does not discuss the question of whether the military would be a better institution if it had more Columbia graduates

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