According to the New York Times, the spokesman for the regime that practiced these kinds of atrocities
is just a regular guy, and no doubt, the best of elitists:
His formal introduction to the terrain of the Western mind came in July at the start of the summer term; most of the class of '09 would not arrive until the fall term. He was glad for the chance to get his bearings. The direction of Mecca he knew from the compass on his watch. For local attractions he had a map of the campus; he got a cellphone, a Yale e-mail account. His student ID card admitted him to lots of campus dining halls, where at first it seemed he was free to choose anything he liked as long as it was pasta. He took to drinking milk with the pasta, but milk didn't agree with him any more than pasta did, and he dropped 15 pounds over the summer. It wasn't until the fall that one of his new friends, Fahad, a Pakistani, tipped him off to the kosher meat at Slifka, the Jewish dining hall.
Oh, what a good kid! Soon, we'll read that he's emoting on stage at campus productions of the Vagina Monologues, and taking up the practice of Halal vegetarianism.
Our elite schools often plumb the depths of intellectual and political depravity, but this is a dramatic expression of total ignorance, indifference, and simmering self-loathing. I'm stunned. Counterterrorism Blog -- in a post entitled, "What Were They Thinking? --has an important question that I'd love to see officially answered:
WHAT IS GOING ON ALLOWING THIS GUY INTO THE UNITED STATES IN THE FIRST PLACE?
However, I can answer the question right now: they weren't thinking.
