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To: Taro who wrote (227920)	4/6/2005 12:42:56 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576600

Maybe academia is liberal because liberals are smarter and less greedy? Maybe academia is liberal because free enterprise tends to hire people to deliver, to create value to run a business, all of which calls for major decisions made based on logic as opposed to dogma and wishful thinking. Flip the coin and you see why so few "cons" end up in academia. They got things to do elsewhere! Interesting theory. Let's test it out on some of the more important neocon dawgs in DC: Paul 'killercon' Wolfowitz: "Wolfowitz’s time outside government has been spent principally as a leader in higher education. From 1994-2001, he served as Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. During his tenure, Wolfowitz also contributed to the public debate on national security issues through his writings, testimony before Congress, and service on public commissions—among them the 1998 Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States and the 1996 President’s Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Earlier, Wolfowitz taught political science at Yale University from 1970 to 1973. In 1993, he was the George F. Kennan Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College." defenselink.mil Newt 'leaves-his-wife-when-she-has-cancer' Gingrich "teacher, West Georgia College, Carrollton, 1970-1978; The rest of his time was spent on the gov't dole as a legislator. bioguide.congress.gov Dick 'oil-hawg' Cheney "After he returned to his home state of Wyoming in 1977, Mr. Cheney was elected to serve as the state's sole Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected five times and elected by his colleagues to serve as Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1981 to 1987. He was elected Chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1987 and elected House Minority Whip in 1988. During his tenure in the House, Mr. Cheney earned a reputation as a man of knowledge, character, and accessibility. Mr. Cheney also served a crucial role when America needed him most. As Secretary of Defense from March 1989 to January 1993, Mr. Cheney directed two of the largest military campaigns in recent history - Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East. He was responsible for shaping the future of the U.S. military in an age of profound and rapid change as the Cold War ended. For his leadership in the Gulf War, Secretary Cheney was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George Bush on July 3, 1991." Cheney has not been in academia at all. Instead, he's a person who has determined there isn't a gov't job he doesn't like! nato.usmission.gov Bill speak-slowly-and-crisply Kristol "William "Bill" Kristol, son of Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, is nearly as important to the right wing movement as his father. In the words of Washington Post "critic" Howard Kurtz, "He's become part of Washington's circulatory system, this half-pol, half-pundit, full-throated advocate with the nice-guy image," who is "...wired to nearly all the Republican presidential candidates." (Feb 2000.) <snip> He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government." mediatransparency.org Oops! Only 1 out of 4. Not too good, Taro. ted