In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks by radical Islamists that killed at least 120 people, Professor Alan Signer of Hofstra University believes that educators should teach students by having them read a rant from Bernie Sanders in which he blames the invasion of Iraq, and not radical Islamists, for the rise of ISIS. Then they should be asked about why Bernie Sanders believes the US is largely at fault for the Middle East today.
Writing for the Huffington Post, Dr. Signer wrote an article titled “Teaching about Paris and ISIS on Monday.” Singer devoted his article to explaining how to bring up the terror attacks to students and where to begin.
“Bernie Sanders’ comments at the Democratic Party debate the most useful for teachers,” he writes. “Sanders argued that the United States invasion of Iraq played a major role in destabilizing the region and that the United States has a responsibility the respond to what is taking place there.”
According to Signer, you should “teach” students by having them read a four-paragraph quote from Bernie Sanders in which Sanders said the US invasion of Iraq is at fault for the rise of ISIS and not radical Islam or President Obama’s decision to leave Iraq without retaining a US military presence in the country.
“I would argue that the disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region completely,” Sanders said last night. “And led to the rise of Al Qaeda and to ISIS.”
He continued, “I don’t think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability we are seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy plunders in the modern history of United States.”
Sanders summarized, “Regime changes have unintended consequences.”
Professor Singer then said that students shouldn’t be asked whether Sanders is correct in his assessment. But instead they should be asked such things as, “Why does Senator Sanders believe the United States has major responsibility for conditions in the Middle East today?”
More liberal indoctrination on today’s college campuses by another worthless “professor.” His is a special kind of stupid.
(sarc on) That Professor is so intellectually superior to all of us. (sarc off)
You know why terrorism happens? – BECAUSE OF ASSHOLES LIKE YOU!
He looks like a pedophile to me.
Of course, anyone who never leaves College is likely hiding some deficiency or another.
Setting aside for a moment the prof’s ideological position, the question is actually a good one. Of course, most of the class attendees (I hesitate to call them “students”) will get it wrong, or, at best, will get it right for the wrong reasons.
The filthy fucking ragheaded savages have been attacking the “West” since the filthy fucking ragheaded pedophile priest started that insane moon cult 1300 years ago. If this “perfesser” had any actual knowledge in his melon he would know that. Or if he could read.
“Alan Singer is a professor of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership and the program director of graduate programs in Social Studies Education.”
(Hofstra University Faculty)
In other words – he knows nothing of History.
It wasn’t the Iraq war that destabilized the region, it was the fall of the Shah of Iran that did that. Jimmy Carter; the gift that keeps on giving.
…and the fall of the Shah was precipitated by the coup that ousted Mossadegh in 1953. CIA, the gift that keeps on giving.
Just another tenured Long-g-g-g Island overage hippie urinal troll.
Got his creds @ Rutgers. Alan Singer is a social studies educator in the Department of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York and the editor of Social Science Docket (a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for Social Studies). He taught at a number of secondary schools in New York City, including Franklin K. Lane High School and Edward R. Murrow High School. He is the author of Education Flashpoints: Fighting for America’s Schools which is based on his award winning Huffington Post blogs, Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers, Social Studies For Secondary Schools and Slavery, Time to Teach the Truth (SUNY, 2008), and Teaching Global History.
I’d bet bitcoins to bagels he’s a self-loathing Jew of the most virulent George Soros variety.
There is virtually no difference between a progtard’s highly nuanced sense of causality and being batshit fucking crazy.
…or merely being completely full of shit.
As Tim alluded to above, I’d like to be alongside the perfesser and ask the young skulls full of mush what exactly the US did to provoke the Moslems in 1783 when the “tax” the British Empire was paying in the merchant-ship protection racket expired as we were recognized as our own country and we became responsible for ourselves? Then they started attacking our ships. For no reason. You remember, the BARBARY PIRATES, from which we still refer to them as “BARBARIANS.”
Well, perfesser? We’re waiting….
He has a point we should have nuked the bastards after 9/11.
There’s so much assholery coming from our institutions of higher learning, largely in part because of a PC ideology. Sadly it’s so expensive to learn so much inaccurate nonsense. Professor Alan Signer is a pus oozing rectum; Education Czar material if you will.
Anybody who can say that global warming, in any way, has anything to do with radical Islamists, needs their head examined. WTF planet is Bernie Sanders even on? Rest assure however, wherever that may be, Professor Doodleass, has what it takes to lead the way there.
I’ll bet you could ask the average college student this:
“Do you believe the 9/11 attacks were a result of Bush’s wars as many pundits have stated?”
9 out of 10 would probably answer “Yes”
(and then demand $15/hour for asking “do you want fries with that”?)
Come on Dan Joseph! Give it a try!
Oh, and that photo should be titled “The Smug Condescension of Amoral, Self-Imposed, Rigidly Enforced Ignorance.”
Agree with Tim… the prof should teach another course that would be in high attendance… Le Fuque Yousef. What a douche.
Don’t forget MI6.
Who does he blame for the creation if ISIS in Libya?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-officials-leader-of-islamic-state-in-libya-believed-killed-in-us-airstrike/2015/11/14/b42cb714-8af0-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html?tid=sm_fb
I wouldn’t take that bet with 1000:1 odds in my favor.
Dictionary:
under DOUCHENOZZLE:
http://iotwreportcom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Alan-Singer.jpg
Boattailinjection, LOL, I give you 100 TU’s just for your name.
When they are attacking, there are 3 clear cut choices:
1.) Analyze their motives and actions to parlay with them and be killed.
2.) Submit/Cower and be killed.
3.) Kill the scum.
I’ll take door number 3.
Progressive Troglodyte: Proglodyte
There is a person – a tacitly functioning adult – who stated this in a private forum. And is serious.
I just wish I could take a time machine back to 2000, undo the stolen election, (just challenging the thousands of ballots thrown out in Florida due to false claims by Jeb that people from Texas couldn’t vote due to felonies that didn’t exist would be enough for the election to go the other way) and I am about 99% sure 9/11 wouldn’t have happened, 100% sure Iraq wouldn’t have happened, and without that ferment creating all the radicalized terror groups, the world should be more peaceful.
Or maybe it would all just be delayed a few years till the merchants of death had a Halliburton CEO vice president to boost sales.
Very punchable face
It is exactly this special breed of asshole that encourages the kind of jihadist attack we saw in Paris.
When a 3 man jihadist combat team takes out 3-400 people at several malls across the country some Saturday during the Christmas shopping season, you can thank this sonofabitch for helping make it happen.