My American Presidency professor (who shall just be known as Professor X) is not a professor. She is an ideologue. As we sit here and discuss everything Bin Laden, I am struck by the fact that she is no different from him. Now before I get accused of calling my professor Bin Laden, let me explain.
She is not violent, she is not an Islamic extremist, and she is not a terrorist. The Osama Bin Laden I compare her to is the man who was blinded by his biases and the man who refused to acknowledge anything that went against his opinions as right. Bin Laden's mind was hell bent on defending his opinions and stopped at nothing to prove it. He sent out videotape after videotape preaching anti-American rhetoric and after 9/11, you could not remove him from the global spotlight if you tried. Professor X, in a way, is very similar.
From the first class, her long winded lectures have proven to the class and I that she bleeds blue. Hell, she probably has a pet donkey named either Blue or Barack. She constantly defends every single decision made by the President and stops at nothing in order to blame any shortcomings of the Obama administration on George W. Bush, who left office a full 29 months ago. Barack Obama and the Democratic Party can do no wrong while President Bush and the Republican Party ooze it. High unemployment? Bush's fault. Iraq? Still Bush's problem. Obama campaign promises concerning the economy that have yet to come to fruition? Bush's fault. Wait, aren't government professors supposed to leave their political positions at the door in order to give students an objective view of the government?
Listening to her drone for 160 minutes a week about the glory of Obama and the Democratic Party and the evil of the red elephant pisses me off, but what inspires this rant is the disgusting amount of ignorance and disrespect spewing from her lips concerning George W. Bush's involvement with the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
There have been dozens of reports and statements from U.S. officials saying that the beginnings of the mission to take down the world's most wanted man began in 2007 during the questioning of a detainee at the controversial Guantanamo Bay (the proving of the prison's effectiveness will be covered in a future post). A prisoner, supposedly under "harsh questioning", gave up the pseudonym of OBL's closest, most trusted courier. It was from there that, under Bush's watch, this courier was shadowed for two years until his real name was learned in early 2009. It was from there that Obama's intelligence team took over and finally completed the mission.
Let me say right now before someone else accuses me of not giving Obama credit. Barack Obama's decision to pursue this mission is one of the ballsiest decisions in Presidential history and I will forever praise him for it. He deserves a huge amount of credit and this world (at least right now) is a better place partly because of him. Also, the Navy SEALS and the rest of the military personnel who carried out the mission are forever American heroes. Their tremendous efforts cannot be fully explained in words. We truly do have the greatest soldiers on Earth. I am continually amazed when I think about their actions in the face of grave danger.
But with that being said, it is fact, it is truth, that Osama Bin Laden is not rotting at the bottom of the Arabian Sea with two American bullets in his heart and head with fish picking at his flesh without the efforts of George W. Bush. Without Guantanamo Bay or the CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, Osama Bin Laden lives to plot another day. Without "harsh questioning" techniques, America will continue to face the dangers that OBL presented to us. It is downright disrespectful and repulsing to hear my professor debate the validity of these reports that state it was under Bush's watch that this operation began, when I know, she knows, and the whole class knows the only reason she does it is because she refuses to acknowledge any good done by the Bush Administration. We have even had debates before concerning Bush's popularity and his speeches after 9/11 but thats for another time another place.
Give credit where credit is due, so give Bush some credit. But my professor won't, she will never compromise or endorse a belief that she is not a subscriber too. She will forever try to dispute and crush your opinions simply because she hates them and is blinded by her own. Hmmmm, kinda sounds like someone in the news these days...
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