The Craziest Lecture I Have Ever Been To

Tonight's Ford Hall Forum presented Dr. Yaron Brooks. This was the last event of a weekend long Objectivist Conference "The Jihad Against the West: The Real Threat and the Right Response". I couldn't attend the conference itself, but I was at the the lecture at Faneuil Hall. Before the lecture began, the gentleman sitting beside me described the chaos of the previous Friday night when Dr. Brook spoke at Tufts. I could believe it. I kept asking him about it. Apparently students were disrupting the talk. I told him that I had been to lectures there and even though I disagreed with most of the speakers, I was always treated cordially. I couldn't imagine such a thing happening. It turns out the Dr. Brooks spoke just across the street from where I attended the EPIIC Symposium back in February. I was most assuredly the ultra conservative present and saw none of the intolerance this person was describing.

First, it was s completely unusual experience not to be the most conservative person in the room. Dr. Brooks talk was greeted with much applause and two standing ovations.

I've never been to a talk/conference/lecture that was dispurted. Several times young people stood and began singing. They had to be removed. Then during the Q&A several of the questions were rude, beligerent and in a few cases.......crazy.

Dr. Brooks talk was along these lines.....

What specific military actions would have been required post-9/11 to end state support of Islamic Totalitarianism is a question for specialists in military strategy, but even a cursory look at history can tell us one thing for sure: It would have required the willingness to take devastating military action against enemy regimes—to oust their leaders and prominent supporters, to make examples of certain regimes or cities in order to win the surrender of others, and to inflict suffering on complicit civilian populations, who enable terrorist-supporting regimes to remain in power.
Observe what it took for the United States and the Allies to defeat Germany and Japan and thus win World War II. Before the Germans and Japanese surrendered, the Allies had firebombed every major Japanese city and bombed most German cities—killing hundreds of thousands. Explaining the ration­ale for the German bombings, Churchill wrote, “. . . the severe, the ruthless bombing of Germany on an ever-increasing scale will not only cripple her war effort . . . but will create conditions intolerable to the mass of the German population.” And as we well know, what ended the war—and the Nazi and Japanese Imperialist threat to this day—was America’s dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan.

He wants to render every government hostile to the US harmless.......I don't know, but it sure was interesting.