great piece by kinsley. didn't congressman dick cheney classify mandela and anc comrades as terrorists? it gets so murky because don't you remember pres reagan touting the muhajadin as the Founding Fathers of their country. at any rate, which political affiliations will prevent a foreign student from getting into this country? i learned a lot--certainly as much from any prof--from a grad student with sympathies for don mattera and less so for joe slovo. will we not see the likes of him in our universities again? i know my govt wants to protect me, but i am not always clear as to what from. another thing: as we are told to bunker down because of threat of anthrax and a potential alliance between disaffected russian scientists and islamic jehadi, don't you think we should consider pulling US troops out from Saudi Arabia? i know thomas friedman doesn't think the US is robbing the Arab world via the House of Saud. He thinks we are there to protect its sovereignty from foreign attack. but saddam is now dust, and the gulf war proved that american troops can be mobilized from afar- -does the US have to occupy that land? Or would this be giving in to the terrorists, even if the majority of the arab people want that too? rb
