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Crazy Cooter:
Except that "sock Puppet" holds advanced degrees and has specialized in Middle Eastern studies since 1984. He understood that region before Bush was sober enough to know it existed.
"Juan Cole didn't set out to be a public intellectual. After joining the history department in 1984 as a specialist in Middle Eastern and South Asian history, he focused on what seemed to be obscure topics, the Shiite Islamic denomination, the rise of the Baha'i faith: Egypt's response to colonialism and various other matters that the world at large does not follow on its TV screens. But it's a fact of academic life that if your region of scholarly interest becomes embroiled in a war of strategic interest to the US government, your role may change to one on center stage."
fredster:
So, he's a degree.
I can't tell you how impressed that makes me. Timothy Leary had a degree also. If you notice his website, he kinda strays from his degree into other areas of policy not exactly related to the war in Iraq.
Bush has a degree, Condi Rice is a scholar also. I guess they just disagree don't they ?
Crazy Cooter:
That's the thing. He studied the area. He comments on the area. He specialized in that area. That holds a lot of water IMO. It's not like he spent the past 20 years of his life in anticipation of Bush being elected so he could rip on the war efforts. He was studying that region back when Bush was snorting blow off his kneecap in the bathroom of some bar. I think he has an understanding of what may/may not work in that region. Has either Bush or Condi studied that area for 20 years? Nope. I guess it depends on who you would consider more knowledgable in the field.
btw, I admire Timothy Leary.
ChadTower:
Shows what you know. Blow is snorted off glass. It's too frickin expensive to snort of something that is going to absorb it.
Crazy Cooter:
You got sweaty knees? ;)