And now, most distressing is the hiring of David Petraeus—the former General and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director. He is to teach at CUNY in the Macaulay Honors College. With a career in serving the US imperial military since the 1970s, Petraeus was part of a NATO (De)’Stabilization’ in Bosnia, and led the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Later in 2004, under Petraeus‘s leadership US forces attacked the Iraqi city of Fallujah with white phosphorus and the devastating effects have been monstrous (there are more birth defects in Fallujah than Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined- two cities that were atomically bombed). From 2004 to 2008, Petraeus was in leadership of the multi-national coalition in occupying Iraq until 2010 when he was moved to oversee operations in Afghanistan. In 2011, Petraeus had been promoted by President Obama to become the Director of the CIA. This lasted until his extramarital affair became public. Apparently, US media cares more that he cheated on his wife than the war crimes and lives lost through US imperialism—not to mention the record of the CIA as the main propagator of terrorism since its inception after World War II. What does this man have to offer the students of CUNY besides reproducing the myth of American benevolence and the guarding of the interests of US imperialism at the expense of the world’s people? CUNY is not promoting those who fought for and represented progress, equality and revolution, but those who represent repression and empire. CUNY has been increasingly bringing in the most reactionary elements into its institution: The return of Reserve on the Call (ROTC) recruitment at City College. Immigration Corrections and Enforcement (ICE) promoting an event and anti-immigrant sentiment in Queens College. The Hillel in Queens College even had an “Adopt an Israeli ‘Defense’ Force (IDF) Unit” Outright reactionary figures, such as CIA-backed Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez and the Secretary-General of NATO Anders Rasmussen, to City College. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:22:46 +0000
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