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To: Lane3 who wrote (56630)	7/28/2004 12:28:21 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 794101

I had to look up what a "professor of military history at Bard College" was, given the nature of the institution. He's not a faculty member, he's a "visiting professor" with "a" degree in history. What is "a" degree in history? BA, no? Primarily a fiction writer (sci fi and murder mysteries), but also wrote a couple of trade paperbacks about terrorism which were coincidentally published after 9/11. In other words, not the ideal person to be telling us about the freakin' "Arab street." Why does every self-described expert in this country think they can tell us about the "Arab street"? I have to admit that the thing I found most irritating is the assertion that the 9/11 commission, which you and I both recognize as a feel-good bandaid, should go back and tell us who we're fighting and why. I vote for Thomas P.M. Barnett and others who actually wage war, study war, or teach war to speak about war, and someone who reads Arabic and has spent time in the Middle East to tell me about the "Arab street."