Re Foriegn students in the US: Many have pointed out that the US spends a lot of money trying to police the planet to some semblance of a lawful community of nations. What I’ve never heard mentioned is how much it has cost the US to assume to the role of head master in the realms of education for the planet.
IMCO these two share more than a bit in common. Besides the obviously unwise effort to forcibly export our standards, our values onto alien cultures (Gene was spot on with his “Prime Directive” in the Star Trek universe) both policies, one formal and the other evolved, have become high risk, high drain burdens the US can no longer afford. No matter how much money the foriegn students infuse into our economy what their enhanced capability does to the balances of competitive international trade will always cost us more than we gained. We have successfully leveled the playing field, it is time to focus on our own or sink to the status of a “worn out has been.”
And all that is before you get to potentials to become a genuine nightmare for everyone: the fact that the foreign student programs are an open invitation for anyone who wants to implant operatives and agents within the US, the exorbitant prices charged those students perfect cover to move large amounts of hostile invisible money through the research grants to give those same agents plenty of operating cash. THAT is the nightmare American Higher Education should fear… trying to live down having been the unwitting accomplices who facilitated the need for the militias to stand to arms as sheriff’s deputies sworn in as functional combat units.
June 1, 2025 @ 2:05 pm
Re Foriegn students in the US: Many have pointed out that the US spends a lot of money trying to police the planet to some semblance of a lawful community of nations. What I’ve never heard mentioned is how much it has cost the US to assume to the role of head master in the realms of education for the planet.
IMCO these two share more than a bit in common. Besides the obviously unwise effort to forcibly export our standards, our values onto alien cultures (Gene was spot on with his “Prime Directive” in the Star Trek universe) both policies, one formal and the other evolved, have become high risk, high drain burdens the US can no longer afford. No matter how much money the foriegn students infuse into our economy what their enhanced capability does to the balances of competitive international trade will always cost us more than we gained. We have successfully leveled the playing field, it is time to focus on our own or sink to the status of a “worn out has been.”
And all that is before you get to potentials to become a genuine nightmare for everyone: the fact that the foreign student programs are an open invitation for anyone who wants to implant operatives and agents within the US, the exorbitant prices charged those students perfect cover to move large amounts of hostile invisible money through the research grants to give those same agents plenty of operating cash. THAT is the nightmare American Higher Education should fear… trying to live down having been the unwitting accomplices who facilitated the need for the militias to stand to arms as sheriff’s deputies sworn in as functional combat units.