Doug Feith to teach at Georgetown, not everyone is happy about it

[babylonsister]

Profiled on Democracy Now:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/11/1445248

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On May 1st, Georgetown announced that the former Under Secretary of Defense, Douglas J. Feith, had been appointed as a visiting professor in the School of Foreign Service. Feith has worked in government for many years and has had stints at the Pentagon and the National Security Council. He served as Under Secretary for Defense of Policy from 2001 to 2005 and was intimately involved with the planning of the invasion of Iraq.

The official announcement immediately brought condemnation from faculty members both within and outside of the department. A letter objecting to Feith's appointment has been signed by 35 professors so far. It reads in part: "Mr. Feith has been accused of ethical conflicts during his term in charge of Iraq reconstruction. More seriously, he has sought to diminish the importance of the Geneva Conventions and has defended the use of torture in a number of public writings and talks. He speaks regularly against the relevance of international law to conflicts in the Middle East and opposes diplomatic solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Perhaps most seriously, he was a central figure in the dissemination of false justifications for the illegal invasion of Iraq, behavior that many experts consider to constitute war crimes, and which the most sympathetic would have to think a highly dubious grounds for further employment."

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[Jacobin]

1. Isn't he the guy that Tommy Franks called:

"The stupidest person on the face of the planet."??

Guess Georgetown is slipping...:-)

[reichstag911]

3. Not quite.

General Tommy Franks (a Rummy lapdog, remember) described Feith as "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the planet." For one of Rummy's lapdogs to so label another strikes me as pretty remarkable; he must be a real blithering, drooling moron. Ya know, like GW*.

[Supersedeas]

5. Georgetown, you can keep him.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Georgetown is a long ways from the Home for Retired Neoconservatives

United Nations Prison, The Hague

[acmavm]

4. I thought students were supposed to obtain knowledge and

information from a college. They're hiring idiot liars now? Wonder what the students will get out of that.