From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!zrm Newsgroups: net.college Title: Re: J. Kirkpatrick at U.C. Berkeley - (nf) Article-I.D.: mitccc.334 Posted: Wed Feb 16 13:18:20 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 06:55:51 1983 References: ucbcad.612 Had I been there to hear Mrs. Kirkpatrick, I would have been very annoyed at the cretins shouting her down, but at this distance I am happy for the effect the incident will have in discrediting the knee-jerk and uninformed reaction many college students have to this administration's policies. A few years ago I attended a lecture by the former director of the CIA, William Colby. There he was repeatedly heckled by Iranian students opposing the Shah. Some of these same students are now passing out leaflets calling for the overthrow of the Ayatollah. Some of them are in Iran, fighting the current regime in guerrilla groups. Some of them are dead. It's really too bad that the students who shouted Mrs. Kirkpatrick down will never be able to experience the life of a Nicaraguan peasant. How soon would the more intelligent of them be in the "contras", shooting the same Sandinistas those students romanticize? How soon would the less intelligent among them be in prison for shooting their mouths off? When have you EVER seen a screaming bunch of Young Republicans should anyone down? What is it about leftists that makes them blind to reason? Cheers, Zig That is, makes some of them blind. But most of the calm reasoning I have heard from leftists is on civil libertarian issues, on which I am usually in agreement with them.