The "insulated setting of Rice's deep-South youth" the author speaks of is not the South but "a home-based environment controlled by her doting parents."
Apart from that, the letters S-O-U-T-H appear only twice in the article: 1) a mention of Southern University in Baton Rouge; 2) a mention of the University of Southern California.
You may or may not agree with the writer's opinion of Rice, but South-bashing isn't part of it.
have been ill treated for the past 8 years. Given bad direction, little support in the field and came home less support from our VA facilities which were thinly staffed or completely devoid of them, only unskilled bozos appointed by buddies in the Pentagon.
Once you try to justify your arguments by bashing the South, I stop listening to you, because I see that you are insulated and ignorant.
I suggest you do more research and study before you write such a slanted piece. I would be happy to read a well-researched, scholarly, unbiased piece about Rice, but that is not what you wrote. Your bias was so blatant it smelled really bad.
So Mr. Rials you say that there has never been an example where a student has used what they were taught at the school to commit a crime, right? Well what is your definition of a crime? Do you mean to say that killing harmless civilians in the name of the United States' national security is not a crime? It seems that our government refuses to admit that they as a whole or certain individuals within its constrains committed a crime, i.e. torture, killing innocent civilians, starting unjustified wars, and lying to the UN security council. At what point does our government admit these crimes and punish the criminals within our government according to international and domestic law?
have been ill treated for the past 8 years. Given bad direction, little support in the field and came home less support from our VA facilities which were thinly staffed or completely devoid of them, only unskilled bozos appointed by buddies in the Pentagon.
http://icoads.cdc.noaa.gov/people/gilbert.p.compo/CompoSardeshmukh2007a.pdf
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