http://mainecampus.com/2009/10/26/hofstra-professor-comes-to-um-calls-iraq-war-a-failure/ The University of Maine student newspaper since 1875 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mainecampus.com/2009/10/26/hofstra-professor-comes-to-um-calls-iraq-war-a-failure/#comment-4801 Matt Palmer Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:44:31 +0000 http://mainecampus.com/?p=3724237#comment-4801 I find humor in the concept that only in academia can we be so blindly critical without reproach, lauded by a university group that advocates looking at the world through a political perspective that has failed in every instance of history, and then boldly leave without offering any solutions to the problem presented. Maybe next time the Hofstra professor could liken compare the Iraq war with something as similar as World War II, like the occupation of Messana in the First Punic War... luckily it seems the lecture series will take a break on bashing the Iraq war in their next speaker, who will go back to bashing on Bush, something that will surely be a novel lecture. I find humor in the concept that only in academia can we be so blindly critical without reproach, lauded by a university group that advocates looking at the world through a political perspective that has failed in every instance of history, and then boldly leave without offering any solutions to the problem presented. Maybe next time the Hofstra professor could liken compare the Iraq war with something as similar as World War II, like the occupation of Messana in the First Punic War… luckily it seems the lecture series will take a break on bashing the Iraq war in their next speaker, who will go back to bashing on Bush, something that will surely be a novel lecture.

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