While Harvard’s acting president, Derek Bok, failed to attend this year’s commissioning ceremony for the Reserve Officers Training Corps, a professor of government at the university, Stephen Rosen, not only attended but spoke words that Harvard and so much of the rest of academe – no supporters of ROTC – need to hear:

You…choose…the life of a warrior…Harvard…is uneasy with national military service, because it is uneasy with war, and with warriors, and it is no longer comfortable with the idea of Harvard as an American university, as opposed to an international university… Without the United States, there would be no Harvard, and we should never forget that. And our country is still at war, and so I salute your courage, your commitment to national service, and the sacrifices you have made and will make.

In addition, it is good to hear that Rosen will serve as senior defense adviser in Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign. (The New York Sun)