2011-12 Schedule of Speakers
Date:
February 24, 2012:
Moorhead Kennedy -Iran Update
March 30, 2012: Darron Collins, COA President
April 27, 2012: Tina Baker and Friends
May 25, 2012: Steve Perrin
Please check back for details.
Location: Birch Bay Village Inn
Time: Lunch 11:30; (hot buffet lunch $11.00 each) Lecture 12-1:00.
Reservations required for lunch and/or lecture.
Email: learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org or call the ASC office 288-9500 for reservations!
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Moorhead Kennedy: Update on Iran
Date: Friday, February 24, 2012
Location: Birch Bay Village Inn
Time: Lunch 11:30; (hot buffet lunch $11.00 each) Lecture 12-1:00.
Reservations required for lunch and/or lecture.
Email: learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org or call the ASC office 288-9500 for reservations!
Description:
Moorhead
Kennedy will address the questions with which he closed his recent Op-Ed in the January 19 issue of the Mount Desert Islander. Thus, we deny to the Iranians the same weapons we tolerate with Israel, not to mention Pakistan, India etc. Our bias toward Israel is self-evident. What does this do to our credibility, our diplomatic effectiveness? If we threaten Iran with attack, does that not strengthen Iranian support for a greater ability to defend itself?
Dr. Kennedy will focus on America's stake in both Israel and Iran, and the roots and shortsightedness of a threatened preemptive attack on Iran. The logical consequence of an attack on Iran, he will argue, is future Iranian retaliation, against Israel, and against the United States.
A retired Foreign Service Officer, who began Arabic in his freshman year at Princeton, and specialized in the Shari'a (islamic law) at Harvard Law School, Dr. Kennedy is best known for his Iranian hostage captivity, and the books, TV appearances, and, above all, the conclusions he continues to draw.