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AMERICA'S INTELLECTUALS: OUR MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY


Sept. 21, 2001


MARINA DEL REY, CA--The greatest obstacle to U.S. victory in our war against terrorism is not Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and their allies, but our own intellectuals, said Dr. Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute.

Even now, said Dr. Peikoff, they are preaching the same ideas that led to our historical paralysis. They are asking a reeling nation, in the name of 'restraint,' to apply only economic and diplomatic pressures, like those that have failed so spectacularly and for so long. The multiculturalist professors are pushing 'understanding' in the name of avoiding 'racism' (i.e., any condemnation of 'another culture'). The friends of 'love' are reminding us, not too loudly yet, of our duty to turn the other cheek.

The Superintendent of Schools in San Diego led a discussion of the bin Laden attack in an eleventh-grade history class. Among other things, he asked the students to empathize with the feelings that the event would engender in a Palestinian; and also 'to compare the victims killed in the World Trade Center with those who died in Hiroshima.' (San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/13/01)

Dr. Peikoff stressed that These are the kinds of voices that will be heard increasingly in the universities, the churches, and the media as the country recovers from its first shock, and the professoriate et al. feel emboldened once again to conduct their ideological 'business as usual.' These voices are a siren song luring us to untroubled sleep while the fanatics proceed to gut America.

We can avert the catastrophe, said Dr. Peikoff, only if our government is courageous enough to hold out against the siren-singers. This requires, at minimum, that our bombs and troops be accompanied by our President's passionately righteous statement that we have broken with the clichés of our paper-tiger past and that the U.S. now places America first.

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