Tom DeLay is Outraged...
By Byron LaMasters
That some "elite colleges" refuse to allow military recruiters on campus. Ya know, cuz it hurts American military preparedness in wartime. That amuses me, because for some odd reason, I must have missed the outrage from Tom DeLay when critical Arabic and Farsi translators were discharged from the military in wartime for committing the heinous crime of being gay.
So, it leads one to wonder, what does Tom DeLay really think? The Daily DeLay finds this priceless DeLay quote from 1988 where Tom DeLay defended Dan Qualye's lack of military service at the GOP convention:
[DeLay] and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention.
What else can I say?
Posted by Byron LaMasters at February 2, 2005 06:18 PM
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Tom DeLay is just playing mind games.
As for me, though, I do find it upsetting that some universities are blocking recruiters, and I do think that they do deserve funding decreases.
Let's be blunt about this: one of the main reasons for federal support of institutions of higher learning is the strategic military value of an educated populace and university R&D.
To the extent that UC Berekeley, et. al., don't play along -- screw 'em.
