The Best Reason EVER To NEVER Overturn 'Don't Ask-Don't Tell'

HT Inside Higher Ed.

The President of Harvard University assures us that ROTC will be welcomed on campus once the military abandons 'Don't Ask-Don't Tell'.

Harvard University, which expelled ROTC four decades ago, will welcome the military training program back to campus only when the ban on openly gay and lesbian service members is repealed, the university’s president said yesterday.

Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, speaking the day after the US Senate declined to take up a measure that would have repealed the “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy, said vestiges of antimilitarism on campus dating to the Vietnam War are largely gone and she would now welcome the opportunity to “regularize our relationship’’ with the armed forces.

“We are very much looking forward to the end of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ ’’ Faust said. “It will be a very important moment to us when that happens.’’

Let's think about this, ya'll! Harvard has contributed geniuses like Obama, Larry Summers, Elena Kagan--just to name a few recent stellar examples--to the current leadership of our fair country. Do we really really really desire the injection of Harvard ROTC grads into the officer corps of our military?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Please.

Well, That Worked Out Well! Larry Summers Heads Back To Harvard

Now only TurboTax Timmy is left of the original quartet of Romer, Orzag, Summers and TT.

Wasn't it about eighteen months ago that anyone who raised his hand and said, 'Maybe it's unwise to double the federal deficit in one year--just sayin'...' was considered a lower life-form, not worthy of consideration. You know, one of those creatures who watches that NewsNetworkThatWe'llJustPretendDoesn'tExist. One of them.

Things have not worked out well in the interim. The banksters got bailed out. The UAW got bailed out. Everybody else (and old fashioned ideas like the Rule of Law) pretty well got hosed.

So, Larry, This Bud's For You. You can head back to the ultimate academic bubble of Cambridge, MA, write your book about why it was all Bush's fault, do some consulting, pretend to read grad student dissertations, and generally be a Pooh-Bah.

You'll be amongst friends, fellow Citizens of the Bubble, like the guys who declared that the Great Recession is officially over.

Whew! That was close! You get to leave on a high note. Real unemployment's about 20%, one in seven are on public assistance, and no one in his right mind will even think about launching a small business.

But, that's OK. You saved the country from recession.