I wondered how long it would take...
for this to show up in "News Picks." (oops. Politics) Let's see...De Genova wishes for "a million Mogadishus." In that engagement we saw 18 Americans and (at a conservative estimate) 2000 Somalis sent to their rewards, so if we are to take the professor at his word he'd like to see eighteen million American deaths and...oh, dear, two trillion enemies and bystanders rubbed out.
He might just as well have wished aloud that Sauron would dispatch a million heavily-armed orcs to Iraq's assistance. Tough to take such a man seriously, and about as reasonable to tar the oppo with his remarks as it would be to assert that everyone backing the war favors turning Iraq into a plain of radioactive glass, as some of the conflict's bubblier partisans have advocated in sundry discussion groups.
Lecturers, also known as assistant professors, tend to be gypsy scholars, untenured, wandering from school to school. For those of you who feel De Genova should be punished for expressing an unpopular (and utterly fatuous) opinion, I suggest you check the Columbia faculty roster next fall semester.
cordially,
[edit: forum misidentified]
