"China Will Be Building Another Great Wall"

Last Wednesday, former CIA Agent Michael Scheuer gave a lecture regarding what he considered to be the three threats to U.S. security from that Persian Gulf. The turn out for this event was great; many students—representing a vast array of different majors and academic backgrounds—attended to hear exactly what Scheuer had to say. Known for his strong opinions and his witty but sometimes caustic remarks, Scheuer definitely engaged the audience and sparked a lot of questions during the short Q&A session that followed afterward.

We were really excited to bring Scheuer here because he has both theoretical and practical expertise in a variety of different phenomena (such as the rise of radical Islamic terrorism) that threaten U.S. security. His insight and beliefs, for example, about why we were attacked on September 11^th and why we are losing the Global War on Terror was even confirmed by Bin Laden himself in 2007. This being said, Scheuer does have many strong view points and not everyone agrees with him on what he thinks about every threat to U.S. security, and we thought that having him speak here at WM would lead students to actively to actively think about these issues themselves. The lecture seemed to do just that. The buzz from the lecture still hasn’t disappeared, and teachers and students alike are debating about what Scheuer had to say.

AMP Contemporary and Cultural Issues (Contempo Cult)