Because a Professor there believed in that viewpoint, and wrote an article.
Oh, I think it's not as dismissable as that, LindyBill. You dismiss my views by saying they are just because I'm "so anti-war," and a common theme here is to attribute all criticism of the war or Bush to the critic's being a ~LIBERAL~. So when I find a source you can't do that ad hominem, or in my case ad feminam, thing to, I think I'll post it as often as it seems relevant to me. You of course may forbid me to quote the journal of the Army War College if you want. I acknowledge that. It would distress me if you did that. It did when you made me stop discussing another subject, secrecy in this Administration, not long ago, though you didn't silence the several people who posted disagreement with the posts of mine that displeased you.
Record, a veteran defense specialist and author of six books on military strategy and related issues, was an aide to then-Sen. Sam Nunn when the Georgia Democrat was chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
In discussing his political background, Record also noted that in 1999 while on the staff of the Air War College, he published work critical of the Clinton administration.
And ALSO:
...retired Army Col. Douglas C. Lovelace Jr., director of the Strategic Studies Institute, whose Web site carries Record's 56-page monograph, hardly distanced himself from it. "I think that the substance that Jeff brings out in the article really, really needs to be considered," he said.
So it's not just "a professor." It's somebody who knows a whole lot more than... oh a lot of people here. And who isn't anti war, or a LIBERAL. And the director of the Strategic Studies Institute thinks its substance "really, really needs to be considered." (Two 'really's!)
And the essay didn't get snuck into the publication, its publication was approved by the Army War College's commandant.
So I think it's a pretty good, concise rebuttal to the ad hominem approach sometimes taken here as a method of disparaging points of view.
Now you call the author "a professor who wrote an article." That would appear to disparage his credentials, too. I hope I've clarified them and the status of the article about which you are so dismissive. |
