February 22, 2002
A Barbarian in the Ivory Tower
Almost daily, in the weeks following the September 11 attacks and again after the United States launched its military campaign in Afghanistan, a colleague asked for my opinion about the use of force in that country, in Iraq, and in others that harbor terrorists. Given my combat experience in that part of the world during the Persian Gulf war, I became an instant expert on a campus where many faculty members are Vietnam-era academics -- intellectuals who received their youthful education in
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