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Home Front: Politix
Feith decried as war criminal upon arrival at Georgetown
2006-05-25
One wonders what the reception would be like were Hugo Chavez to pay the university a visit ...
Douglas J. Feith's table at the Georgetown University faculty club is shaping up as a lonely one. The move to a teaching position at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown by Mr. Feith, a former Pentagon official, set off a faculty kerfuffle, with 72 professors, administrators and graduate students signing a letter of protest, some going as far as to accuse him of war crimes.

Some critics complain about the process. (He was hired without a faculty vote.)
That could be a problem. As a faculty person myself, it would upset me substantially if a senior person was hired to a tenure or regular track without a proper vote by the Department and the Promotions Committee. Most every university has similar rules, and it's done to prevent deans and chancellors from just hiring their pals. However, as is explained below, if he's hired to a special track especially created for ex-admin types who come to teach and cash in, that's different.
Some complain about the war in Iraq. (Mr. Feith has been accused of promoting it with skewed intelligence.)
That can be discussed in an academic forum, like a classroom or a debate.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#12  the Saudi influence buys pre-paid whore cards
Posted by: Frank G   2006-05-25 20:40  

#11  To paraphrase Jack Nicholson, as the Joker, "This (George)town needs an enema."
Posted by: Captain America   2006-05-25 19:26  

#10  Prince Moneybags getting a good return on his investment already...
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-05-25 10:08  

#9  So it was Feith who lied, not Bush.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-05-25 10:06  

#8  Feith decried as war criminal. Taliban minister welcomed with free tuition, room and board.
Posted by: ed   2006-05-25 08:36  

#7  A response to incivility at some point will occur. The root of the word is civil, the civil people will put an end to that which is incivil.

Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven. --Preston
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-05-25 07:34  

#6  That explains a lot, lotp.

There are many dens of foolishness, but I'm becoming convinced that our most dangerous and enduring problems stem almost solely from the education system. Even if we could sweep the decks of the insane (I can think of no more appropriate word) "educators", what the hell do we do with their indoctrinated minions? It is a split generation - and I don't know the relative sizes. One part is obviously sterling - those who join our military demonstrate it clearly, as well as those who we've heard have challenged their fool professors. One part, those who treated Mr Feith (and Rice and McCain and Gonzalez and many others) with such disrespect, displaying such a lack of grace and intelligence that they don't appear to be of any value to society. What to do with them? Do we need that many burger-flippers? How to drop the hammer on the system and it's power brokers?

The Wahhabists created the tumor that is today's Saudi Arabia (and by extension to all "centers" where that have exported their venom) by taking over their education system. We have the Socialist and Moonbat parallel.

This behavior is one of those leading indicators of what is to come, incivility and confrontation on a scale that eventually far outstrips the juvenile snide and sneering of callous youth. Woe will come to them in waves.
Posted by: Ebberemp Phinens2648   2006-05-25 07:19  

#5  Georgetown sends a lot of grads to the State Dept, World Bank, etc.

To State? So Georgetown produces traitors?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-05-25 07:19  

#4  Mark N. Lance, a philosophy professor who teaches nonviolence in the program on Justice and Peace

Ah. An idiot.

Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-05-25 07:18  

#3  IMHO forcing taxpayers to fund universities creates left-wing cockroaches who hide in non-jobs.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2006-05-25 07:03  

#2  Georgetown sends a lot of grads to the State Dept, World Bank, etc.
Posted by: lotp   2006-05-25 05:35  

#1  The usual suspects? Just exactly what kind of graduate does Gerogetown produce? How many US citizens got jobs from the impact of Georgetown Grads on the world? How many US citizens lives saved? To me it seems just one more place out of touch totally with where I live and and me getting by.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-05-25 03:10  

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