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May 21, 2006
Honoring the Secretary of
State in this year of protracted war, surely ranks Boston
College high on the score of academic opportunism.
Harvard produced Henry
Kissinger and the international scourge from East Timor to
Chile. Stanford gave us Ms. Rice, who bids fair to equal the
Kissinger record for mendacity, subversion and blood
letting.
Secretaries of State seldom
initiate international policies. They are, after all,
secretaries; as someone has said acidly, “they take
dictation”. The dictation transmitted by Ms. Rice from Bush
to our world is grim, brutal, and horrific. It is also
anti-Catholic. It includes planning, executing, publicly
defending a war condemned by the Pope; a war whose chief
victims are Iraqi children, women, the ill and the aged. It
includes vast areas seeded with depleted uranium, the
slaughter in Afghanistan, and the threat of a strike against
Iran.
Ms. Rice richly deserves a
Dishonorable Degree. Let her receive this loud and clear
from our hands, with our voices on May 22nd.
Those who conceived and
huckstered this tawdry stunt, Jesuits and others, deserve
the same. They have disgraced the Jesuits and Boston
College. Let this honor be theirs as well.
Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
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