[FBD]

>Alia:
"This author gives not two farthings for fact or truth, and his research is obviously only limited to perusing those who agree with his own worldview.

His full intent is bluster, to provoke. The author is cocking a snook, and spinning an agenda.

I read his article, and I see an old, tired, boring, cowardly man sitting on his toilet writing an article. Were he not tenured, he'd be at Park Square on a little box, screaming his rant at those busy on their way to and from work; and hoping you'd be putting some tin or bucks into his little cup.

Just because he has been accorded the title "professor" should in no way serve to empower his article, or his anti-military sentiment running like poison through this attempt at "intellectual" ponderings.

The scholar needs the warrior more than the warrior needs the scholar, at moment. Perhaps he's just feeling... BLUE."<

- Well said, Alia... that was even poetic! Too bad you had to waste such wonderful prose on such a blowhard as this professor.

[Alia]

It was easy to write: the man inspires sharp prose in response to his inanities. Perhaps this is also his teaching method: get up in front of the class, show his vapidness, and the class feels instantly "better educated" (than the professor). :)

You've got some superb cites in your pofile, FBD.