It seems like the left may have launched an organized letter-writing campaign regarding the debate between Alex Ketay and Steve Bartholomew over so-called “anti-war” groups. Meanwhile, with no real conservative organizations on campus, certainly not the “neutered” College Republicans, no one seems to be writing in Ketay’s defense until now.

All Bartholomew really did was call for unity amongst anti-war groups. There was no real defense of why anti-war groups were right, just that they needed to unify. Ketay, however, precisely detailed the type of people behind the “anti-war” movement, thus exposing it for what it is: A left-wing movement that pretends to be an anti-war movement. I’m sure there may be an anti-war group or two that is the real thing, but the other 99 percent of the so-called “peace” movement only condemns war when it supports left-wing goals.

I found it especially ironic that one of the letter writers was Axel Meyer, a longtime member of the DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice, an offshoot of United for Peace and Justice.

During the 1980s, the Interfaith Network supported the Sandino Communist government of Nicaragua, which came to power by starting a war. They also supported the FMLN communist guerrillas as they started and waged a war to make El Salvador a communist dictatorship. The only calls for peace they made were to the U.S. that was supporting the anti-communists, not the actual communists themselves.

Many of Ketay’s critics use the old leftist method of accusing him of calling anti-war protesters traitors of communists. Ketay didn’t just call them that, he demonstrated and proved it!