Ted Poe: “Yale University proudly boasts it has among its students a so-called former Taliban leader. The Taliban promotes…”

“Yale University proudly boasts it has among its students a so-called former Taliban leader. The Taliban promotes treating women like property, intolerance for religious diversity, hate for freedom, and death to America. Has Yale let a Taliban spy into its midst? Has elitist Yale University lost its way? But Yale did have a spy graduate from its university over 200 years ago. He was a 21-year-old. His name was Nathan Hale. He was a schoolmaster, a volunteer in the Continental Army, and a spy for George Washington. While Hale was gathering intelligence on the British in 1776, he was betrayed by Tories in New York City, captured and hung by British General Howe without a trial. Though Hale is rarely mentioned in U.S. history books any more, his last words before being hung were: ``I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.'' Yale University would do well to recruit and honor students like Hale, instead of Taliban radicals who are villains to freedom. And, Mr. Speaker, that is just the way it is. ____________________”