Good piece at Front Page magazine by Jamie Weinstein, a Cornell student in the trenches. An excerpt:

I guess I overestimated the movement to drive our military off campus. While it is true I believed the motivating force behind it was hatred for our troops,and not “discrimination,” I thought that the shameful protesters would at least try to hide this. Evidently not.

Writing in The Sun, Professors Moncrieff Cochran and William Trochim, along with students Patrick Young ’06 and Bekah Ward grad, revealed their true intentions in trying to remove the military from the University. After placating the discrimination argument, they turned to their real gripe: the United States military itself. They wrote, “we oppose military recruiter’s presence on campus because they are selling a career in killing.”

Make no mistake, the discrimination argument is a canard. This coalition of radical writers, along with their considerable following, hates our military and our soldiers not because of anything relating to discriminatory practices, but because they consider them killers. Having failed to stop the liberation of Iraq with their rallies and teach-ins, these anti-war radicals have turned to another front to attack the U.S. Armed Forces.

Behind the calls of “Support Our Troops — Bring Them Home,” lies the belief that the U.S. military is not generally a force of good in the world, but rather a negative one. In their mind, American G.I.’s do not stand for freedom and protecting America, but rather are drones helping further American “imperialism.”

Sounds like an ideal training ground for future award-winning AP photographers.

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