It's a titanic struggle between the slam dunk $4 million book deal cash-it-in kid (left) and "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth " (right). Hurry, students, seats are limited.
In a Washington Post article, one student who is simultaneously enrolled in courses taught by Feith and Tenet reports that:
...neither professor used the class to defend his record. "They stood on their principles but acknowledged where things went wrong," he said. They also blamed one another, with Feith noting the faulty CIA intelligence on Iraq's weapons program and Tenet lashing out at the Pentagon for questioning CIA analysts' work.
"There was definitely some tension over DOD's work where Tenet really resented the fact, and he made it clear, that DOD was challenging the CIA's assessments," [the student] recalled. "And Feith on so many occasions really was challenging the CIA's assessment, and he insisted that his office was not doing alternative intelligence work, but doing policy work."
So both stood on principle and neither defended his record, but each blamed the other for mendacious policy failures in which both had important roles.
Further:
Each professor asks his students to play the role he gave up in 2004. Assignments include briefing the president on threats and preparing plans for war.
So the central theme of each professor's course is "You pretend to be me as I help mislead the country into war and I'll grade you on how well you do it". That's gotta lead to some serious critical analysis.
What a priceless educational experience this must have been.
You know, I like to think that one of the virtues of a life's work in academia is that on the worst day you ever had, you never killed anyone. But these guys, they've done it all.
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