<p>rhapsody, i love you
Flyy, if you’re getting your opinions from FNC, Yale isn’t for you, sorry. you’ll come off as a big “Amurican” idiot.</p>
<p>you guys are right, he’s an Eli Whitney student; some kid with a perfect SAT score didn’t lose his place in the class to him. he isn’t even really in Yale College going towards a degree.</p>
<p>as for the Taliban, like he had a choice whether to join them or not?
think about it. did Pope Benedict have a choice to /not/ be a Hitler Youth? did Peter Pettigrew have a choice to /not/ follow the Dark Lord?
in the 3 cases, they needed to do what they needed to do to stay alive under the new system.
Hashemi just had to deal, he was following orders (and regrets whatever work he did before). Following orders, kinda like the American soldiers at My Lai. we forgave them, right?</p>
<p>on campus, no one cares about this. ok, he used to be a Taliban spokesman because the Taliban needed someone multilingual, big deal. he’s not making girls on campus put on burqas. he’s not damning the gays. he’s not he’s just there to study. Yale, being an American institution happens to like the American idea of being able to start your life over again.</p>
<p>furthermore, with all the Skull and Bones ties to the present administration, do you think the Bush administration couldn’t easily tell the Yale Corporation they didn’t agree with letting Hashemi in and prevent it? after all Dubya is arguable the most powerful Yale/Bonesman around right now.</p>