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.