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Feith Loses Teaching Gig
Georgetown students will no longer have the benefit of Douglas Feith's insights into international law, his talent for seeing connections where others do not, or his ability to pack a PowerPoint presentation with punch. That's because his time there is up:
Asked about Feith's status, Robert Gallucci, dean of Georgetown's foreign service school, told us that when Feith was hired -- something that caused an uproar among the faculty -- it was understood he "was on a two-year appointment." Any decision not to renew should not be seen as "a judgment on his performance," Gallucci said, noting that Feith's students' "course evaluations were really good."Feith, author of a bestseller about his Pentagon days called "War and Decision," said he hadn't decided what to do next. "I'm intensely occupied with book stuff," and there are "several things I'm thinking about," he said.
Word is that keeping Feith on beyond the two-year term again would have infuriated a number of faculty members.
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Send him off to "Dick" Perle's villa in France, I say.
April 24, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Book stuff"--it must be that kind of eloquence that makes him such a great author and superb instructor.
April 24, 2008 5:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
His GU students liked him because he gave them free lunch and took them for a White House tour. http://www.thehoya.com/node/15913 (scroll to comments).
April 24, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shoulda kept him as an example of being:
The dumbest xxxxx on earth!
It would have built up morale for future GOP pres wannabe's...Being on the bottom 6 as they are.
April 24, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
This makes my day.
Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz, far from being “intellectuals,” are idiots. Given their records at the Pentagon, it’s a travesty that they have been able to be employed at anything more influential than flipping burgers or mopping floors.
It was Feith’s brilliant mind that gave us foreign policy informed by a vaudeville joke:
A guy is on his knees under the streetlight.
The cop on the beat says, “What are you doing?”
“Looking for my keys.”
“Where were you when you lost them?”
“Over by the steps, but the light is better here.”
“The bad guys are in Afghanistan, but we should bomb Iraq because . . . [drumroll] . . . they have better targets.”
April 24, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is a large-scale management failure that Georgetown hired the "dumbest fucking guy on the planet" in the first place.
They do long term damage not only to public morality, but in particular to their own reputations as universities, when enaging in such eye-opening mismanagement.
Now a faculty position is open! Let's see, Yoo is tied up at Berekely for now. So who will replace Feith? Harriet Myers? Rumsfeld? Wolfowitz was driven out of the World Bank on a rail recently, will he be stepping in? Oh, I know! Time for Gonzales!
The evaluations are hardly the point -- the students should not be hiring the faculty; they are students. Whoever did hire this cocksure, key architect of the Bush administration's worst policy failures, did very badly in his own job --with large-scale negative consequences for the univerity's reputation, including the (enraged and humiliated) faculty who had to call him a colleague (?!), and those poor students who filled out the evaluations. They in particular deserved better. What steps will be put in place to prevent this gross mismanagement from being repeated?
April 24, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wolfowitz became a "resident scholar" at AEI after losing his World Bank gig, so he's set.
I've heart Abu Gonzales is hurting for work, tho.
April 25, 2008 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
There are "several things" he is thinking about... quiet everyone, lets not distract him.
April 24, 2008 10:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Founding Fathers, who believed in statesmanship and intellectual discourse would be quite dismayed by the present day situation. People like Feith who believe in federalism seem to be working in diametrical opoosition to all that the founding fathers worked toward and represented. The idea of truth, justice and the american way seems to have been replaced by lies, partisanship and "our way or the highway". A very sad state of affairs indeed and one which all great societies who were in their declining years could understand.
April 25, 2008 8:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
shall we start a betting pool as to how long before David Whore-o-wits starts citing Feith as a victim of the liberal fascism of academia?
April 25, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Anybody listening @ UC Berkeley...????
Time to follow Georgetown's example and get rid of John Yoo!!!!!
April 25, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink