Monday, May 19, 2014

Condoleeza Rice, Mushroom clouds and the Rutgers Commencement 2014. Another unpublished letter to the editor:

 To the Editor
Timothy Egan’s column The Commencement of Bigots, NYT  5/15/14,  slams as "bigots" the students who objected to Condoleeza Rice being their commencement speaker at Rutgers.
Condoleeza Rice  played a prominent role in the hoodwinking of the United States into one the most costly military disasters in American history, most notably by using psychic terror to suppress the opposition with her famously dishonest warning that “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.". Considering the human, economic and geopolitical damage she and the Bush administration did to the world that college graduates are inheriting  opposing the decision to award her with an honorary degree at their commencement ceremony is not bigotry. It's called caring and being heard about who this country trusts to be its leaders and not honoring those who cynically and knowingly betray that trust.