From The SMU Daily Campus
By Matthew Haley

Professor Abraham’s article in our campus’s paper was disturbing. He spoke the same language as the ignorant Republicans who blindly follow President Bush.

While the nation has been led into a terrible war, some are being led to believe the Bush Institute stands for academic diversity. His references to terrorism are illogical, claiming that “we will run away and let terrorists kill Baptists at Baylor.” What does that mean, and how does it fit into this argument?

Do not insult me by trying to tug at my pathos with the word “terrorist.” Do not link my personal safety, the safety of my peers and the safety of our country to the issue of the Bush Library. It is disgusting.

How can independent thought thrive when a conservative think tank is operating on our campus? The same people who have made our world a dangerous place now want to spread their lies from a building at SMU! These are the same people who funded the Taliban, funded Hussein’s army, the same party that sent my friends to war only to make America into one of the world’s most targeted and hated nations.

Our nation has the power to become anything its people demand. We could spend our money hunting down Osama bin Laden, but do the conservatives remember him? He was the guy who planned the attacks on our country. Do I sound like a flower-holding hippie to ignorant conservatives when I say we must track down bin Laden at all costs? Am I a radical for expressing the notion that toppling the regime in Iraq was a complete diversion from trapping the man who killed thousands of Americans?

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