ACTA claims are a dissident minority
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:00 am
ACTA, whose ranks also boast trustees from universities such as Yale, Harvard and Georgetown, believe institutions of higher learning that promote a dissident view of the Bush administration's “war on terrorism” are irresponsibly out of step with the majority of Americans who support war in retaliation for the attacks of Sept. 11.
“In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Americans across the country responded with anger, patriotism, and support of military intervention. The polls have been nearly unanimous -- 92 percent in favor of military force even if casualties occur -- and citizens have rallied behind the president wholeheartedly,” the report begins.
The report says that 79 percent of college students generally approved U.S. air strikes and 68 percent supported the use of ground troops in Afghanistan. This, combined with comments from what show that, “The fact remains that academia is the only sector of American society that is divided in its response...an apparent phone number list symptom of an educational system that has increasingly suggested that Western civilization is the primary source of the world's ills -- even though it gave us the ideals of democracy, human rights, individual liberty and mutual tolerance.”
ACTA sees that since Sept. 11 colleges have “reinforced the mindset that it was America -- and America's failure to understand Islam -- that were to blame. To say that it is more important now [to study Islam] implies that the events of Sept. 11 were our fault, that it was our failure...that led to so many deaths and so much destruction,” said Cheney.
“In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Americans across the country responded with anger, patriotism, and support of military intervention. The polls have been nearly unanimous -- 92 percent in favor of military force even if casualties occur -- and citizens have rallied behind the president wholeheartedly,” the report begins.
The report says that 79 percent of college students generally approved U.S. air strikes and 68 percent supported the use of ground troops in Afghanistan. This, combined with comments from what show that, “The fact remains that academia is the only sector of American society that is divided in its response...an apparent phone number list symptom of an educational system that has increasingly suggested that Western civilization is the primary source of the world's ills -- even though it gave us the ideals of democracy, human rights, individual liberty and mutual tolerance.”
ACTA sees that since Sept. 11 colleges have “reinforced the mindset that it was America -- and America's failure to understand Islam -- that were to blame. To say that it is more important now [to study Islam] implies that the events of Sept. 11 were our fault, that it was our failure...that led to so many deaths and so much destruction,” said Cheney.