Naval School Professor Should Be Fired for Proposing to "Test" Osama's "Truce"

By Andrew Cochran

Douglas Borer, associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, has written an op-ed in today's "Christian Science Monitor" titled, "Why not test bin Laden's 'truce' offer?" In my opinion, the piece is ridiculous and repugnant for two reasons. First, he supports his argument with incorrectly stated historical precedents - the events just didn't happen as he cites them. Second, he proposes that we "partner" with OBL and Al Qaeda, who killed thousands of innocent civilians in the 9/11 and other terrorist attacks in Africa, Iraq, and elsewhere through its affiliates. The U.S. Navy should move to dismiss him for such sloppy and morally offensive scholarship.

First, the facts: Borer says that "Yitzhak Rabin buried the hatchet with Yasser Arafat, and thus engendered a peace process..." Actually, when Arafat violated the agreements by continuing to support terrorists, Israeli leaders properly punished him and the PNA, effectively imprisoning Arafat until his death. Borer says Britain has "made peace" with IRA, and the US has "come to terms with Libya's terrorist-sponsoring leader Muammar Qaddafi." Actually, the British defeated the IRA, in part because the IRA lost funding after 9/11, and the IRA recognized its defeat and surrendered. And the U.S. has not removed Libya from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Borer says that we should deal with Al Qaeda as Columbia did with FARC terrorists, by pursuing peace and then reverting to force if Al Qaeda breaks the agreements. But why would we follow a policy that so obviously failed?

Borer says "President Bush can show the world that bin Laden is a bogus partner..." PARTNER??!! After seeing Al Qaeda's multiple attacks against the U.S. in Yemen, Africa, the Middle East, and on our homeland, this "professor" pretends that Al Qaeda killers don't have to admit their terrorist actions and can be our PARTNERS??!! To hell with that!! I want to see Predator missiles shoved through every orifice of every Al Qaeda terrorist tomorrow!!

The Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey is an outstanding institution that contributes significantly to the study of terrorism and proliferation. But I cannot believe that my tax dollars are being used by the United States Navy, which lost so many good men to Al Qaeda on the U.S.S. Cole, to pay Borer to distort history and teach that we can even attempt to "partner" with Al Qaeda (EDIT: Borer needs a visual reminder of the attacks from Bill Roggio's site). You can see Borer's bio at the school's website. Rear Admiral Richard Wells, the President of the school, should fire Borer immediately.

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