Former CIA director David Petraeus takes up Harvard teaching post

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Former CIA director David Petraeus takes up Harvard teaching post

Associated Press
theguardian.com, Saturday 19 October 2013 15.02 BST

The retired four-star Army general and former CIA director David Petraeus is joining the staff at Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government.

The school announced on Friday that Petraeus has been appointed a non-resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Petraeus will jointly lead a new project focusing on the technological, scientific and economic dynamics that are spurring renewed North American competitiveness. "The Coming North American Decades" project will analyse how potential policy choices could effect this ongoing transformation.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/19/david-petraeus-harvard-us

[Decaffeinated]

1. I'd go....

[NuclearDem]

2. Wow, just doesn't take the hint.

[Ranchemp.]

4. What hint would that be?

[mwrguy]

6. That he isn't wanted there by much of the staff and students.

It's been made abundantly clear.

[Ranchemp.]

8. So I guess no one has a right to an opposing point of view,

and mob rules apply. Amiright?

[NuclearDem]

9. Not from a war criminal.

[Ranchemp.]

11. Has anyone, other than on chat sites, accused him of war crimes?

[NuclearDem]

15. Engineering the Sunni death squads in Iraq while he was the commander.

The man has no business in academia.

[Ranchemp.]

17. What proof is there of this?

And why hasn't he been charged if it's true?

[NuclearDem]

25. He was responsible for training the Iraqi security forces during this time as commander of the MNF.

That includes the Wolf Brigades, which he and al-Maliki engineered to fight JAM.

I suspect he hasn't been charged because we don't charge war criminals in this country.

[Ranchemp.]

28. So, IOW, there is no proof of war crimes by him.

[NuclearDem]

29. Other than him being in charge while they were happening.

The man was in charge of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the CIA while the US was running torture prisons, death squads, targeting killings, and mass civilian casualty attacks. He would have been well within his authority to put an end to any of those when he was in charge, but he didn't, because he, like virtually every other commander of these occupations, either didn't give a damn or found them useful for terrorizing the populations into compliance.

He's a war criminal. Should be in The Hague with the rest of them.

[BlueToTheBone]

16. Step away from the tv

remove the remote from your hand. Read some news. Google is your friend.

[Ranchemp.]

18. I do read, I am educated.

So far, I haven't seen any convincing evidence of war crimes, and, neither has anyone in any position of authority, just a bunch of wanna be lawyers on chat sites.

[BlueToTheBone]

21. see post #20

[Ranchemp.]

26. And?

[mwrguy]

10. He has a right to his opinion

He does not have a right to a job at Harvard.

Majority feelings should be taken into consideration. It's not a mob any more than the civil rights marchers were a mob.

[Ranchemp.]

12. Wow, this on a liberal website.

So, the cops/KKK were justified in beating/killing the civil rights marchers because the majority of citizens in those states were opposed to civil rights for AA's?
Unfuckingbelieveable.

[BlueToTheBone]

20. What? That is definitely a false

equivalency. No one beat ole Betraus; perhaps a few obscenities were hurled; and yes this is a liberal website. And while he was busy showing off his for his mistress; he killed hundreds of thousands more so he could have a surge. He does not deserve a job teaching anyone anything.

[Ranchemp.]

23. Let's see here, who approved the surge?

So now President Obama is a war criminal?

[BlueToTheBone]

24. See post #20

[Ranchemp.]

27. And?

[delta17]

32. Yeah he does, since they hired him.

Sorry, but adults don't let a few fringe protesters influence their decisions.

[grasswire]

3. prolly lots of ambitious young women there....

Dirty Old Man.

[Skidmore]

5. Need to educate the next generation of neocons.

He's still serving the masters.

[malaise]

7. The institutions of hegemony are one nasty

incestuous cesspool.

[Skidmore]

13. Sometimes don't you just get sick of

all the petty, self-aggrandizing, pretentious twits we seem to give passes to power to in this nation? Somedays you can't decide whether to laugh or cry.

[malaise]

14. Most days

and you're right - it's so vulgar, it's actually laughable.
Until they are ostracized and treated like pariah there will be no change.

[MisterP]

19. Military-Industrial-Academic-Scientific-Congressional

[malaise]

22. It's all the institutions of hegemony

in both political and civil society. Parenti is soooooooooooooo right.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. Another failed militarist finds a home.

[Hoyt]

31. Hope the students teach him something.

[LittleBlue]

33. Must be nice to have friends in the military-industrial complex

No matter how many crimes he commits, he will always have a comfy position somewhere and never worry about prosecution.

Generals are basically immune to any sort of real consequences for their actions. Only peons like us face consequences for our actions.

[Rex]

34. Of course he does, he is part of the privileged elite.

Never have to work a real day in his life anymore.