Daily Kos’s Mike Pridmore has started an informed and enlightening discussion of Kramer’s attack on Middle East Studies professors in the US.
See also Susan Hu’s diary on the indications that some military bases may be blocking Informed Comment and presumably other similar sources of information on Iraq. I have a lot of .mil readers, and know for a fact that the blog is valued by many intelligence professionals in DC, so it is a shame if it is not available at some bases.
I’m honored. The story originated here. Below, the preface to Mike Pridemore’s diary:
by mikepridmore
Tue Jul 12th, 2005 at 10:48:22 PDT
To get an understanding of what Juan Cole is up against you need a peek into what others in his field are saying. A recent symposium at Georgetown University provided the perfect opportunity to do so. A synopsis of that symposium is available online here. Several themes are apparent. First, and this is the biggest concern for Cole’s fellow academics, Arab studies programs are having to defend the need for their very existence if they refuse to toe the official government line. Here is an excerpt from a 2002 piece by Martin Kramer, who also happened to attend the symposium (link): …
Read all of Mike Pridmore’s diary.