Comments on: Petraeus’s PhD

By: Erick Blair

Erick Blair — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:43:18 +0000

I read your last couple of posts, it’s pretty clear that your real income must come from a job that inovlves saying: “would you like fries with that?” all day long.

If all these senior officers with PhD’s are dumb or stupid, it only means that they have their posts because they’re smarter than plankton like you. As the marxists say, everything is realitive.

By: Renegade Eye

Renegade Eye — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:15:55 +0000

I heard he has future presidential aspirations.

By: J. Marlin

J. Marlin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:33:31 +0000

The pathology of conferred expertise is ever-present and almost always potent. Another superb effort by Proyect, this time adding new perspective to the phenomenon.

By: Kill them fast and often at Antony Loewenstein

Kill them fast and often at Antony Loewenstein — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:55:39 +0000

[...] Or is he? [...]

By: Paul F

Paul F — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:31:28 +0000

Many years ago, reviewing a dreadful hagiography of Stalin by a Canadian Professor, I wrote: ‘Academic qualifications do not prevent men from being fools or charlatans, or both.’ Having in the intervening years obtained a BA, MA and PhD, I stand by every word of what I wrote back then.

Paul F

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:24:10 +0000

Thanks Louis! This is a valuable public service! I’m surprised that a professional reporter didn’t do this investigation already…

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:27:42 +0000

“But to do that would risk unleashing a massive protest movement that might spill beyond the campuses.”

Perhaps you mean spill into the campuses? Considering they seem to be relatively quiet compared to the Vietnam era?

By: Michael Hureaux Perez

Michael Hureaux Perez — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:51:00 +0000

Lower the interest rates half a point and watch not only the right, but the Vichy supporters of the current wannabe hup ho scurry back to their stock portfolios. If there has ever been a more intellectually vacuous and morally depraved gaggle of ruling class prigs in this country, I’d like to know when that period of history was. These guys have got to be the worst since the Mexican American war period. It is hardly surprising that their military now features “intellectual” stars like Petraeus and other sad clowns who are constantly surprised by the realities of partisan warfare.

By: Binh

Binh — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:22:28 +0000

PhD. Piled Higher and Deeper.