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Op-For John On Townhall.com

by on March 9, 2007 in The Long War

Look who’s posted on Townhall.com! Listed right there with my fellow Marines Oliver North and Thomas Sowell, and VDH too.

GO READ AND HEED. DO IT NOW!

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  1. Lawrence says:
    March 10, 2007 at 11:16 am

    John Says… “Prof. Cole is doing something that many anti-war bloggers do—pretending that they are someone they aren’t, writing on a topic that that they know little about. Cole is a professor of Middle Eastern studies, and is no doubt expert in that discipline. But his writing implies that he has some sort of expertise on counter-insurgency that trumps that of the career military officers who ordered the aforementioned air strikes.”

    Arguing against these types of professors is pointless.

    Academic elitist like this guy do not recognize the profession of arms as a real profession. Nothing that a War College graduate says and nothing that an expirienced anti-insurgency veteran sayse is given any intellectual credence with these people.

    It is unfortunate that in the pursuance of national security we must tollerant such intellectual intollerance.

  2. John says:
    March 10, 2007 at 11:33 am

    yeah, the problem with many academics is that they confuse expertise in their discipline with some sort of universal expertise in all fields.

    Cole isn’t a dumb dude, I recognize that. But he’s no expert in counterinsurgency either. And that’s something that everyone should recognize.

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