Rahmatullah Hashemi '09

Do you know who Bruno Malitz was? No? How sad! He was the spokesperson for Nazi Germany before WWII. He has faded into history, with little more than an occasional reference to him. Google his name and you will get 63 references. Google Rahmatullah Hashemi, the spokesperson for the Taliban before the Afghanistan War and current Yale student, and you get 47,300 references.

Both were anti-diversity and anti-American. To matriculate Hashemi at Yale in the name of diversity is comical, sort of like bestowing Hitler membership in a Jewish Synagogue.

I believe that viewing of the movie "The Mouse that Roared" should be required for all Americans. In that movie, a country goes to war against the USA because it is in financial trouble and knows that we treat our defeated enemies very well, while we tend to ignore others in need. Our kindness and open-mindedness can be used against us. Our news media, which focuses on the underdogs, particularly those who we have most recently interacted with, leads those driven to help others to focus on our most recent "victims", often to the exclusion of those who are in more need and are more deserving.

That Yale was unable to find an applicant who was more deserving of admission on the basis of spreading their kindness and openness is a sad reflection on the attention span and breadth of awareness of the leaders of that institution.