What Regent did for the DOJ, this school will do for the DOD - This is scary.

[burythehatchet]

Foreign policy program churns out Bush 'acolytes'

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Graduates work at the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon.
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Missouri State's concentration of Bush veterans includes aides to such foreign-policy heavyweights as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Its director, Keith Payne, worked for Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, where he pushed for research on a new generation of nuclear weapons to target underground bunkers.

The faculty includes Robert Joseph, the former undersecretary of state who advised Bush to leave the anti- ballistic missile treaty. J.D. Crouch, the president's departing deputy national security adviser, would be welcome too, Payne said. Crouch was once a faculty member.

As a rule, Missouri State scholars are quicker to favor aggressive military policies than their counterparts at many other schools, said Robert Jervis, a professor at Columbia University in New York who specializes in foreign policy decision-making.


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aB8Q8UJowDkw

[Jackpine Radical]

1. And then ya got the Air Force Academy

churning out legions of fundie flyboys--i.e. larval fundie generals.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. larval fundies - what a scary thought.

I've always wondered whose orders they follow first? their holey book, or a civilian commander's?

[burythehatchet]

3. and they would turn on a peaceful protest with a vengeance reserved only for liberals

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Indeed.

My guess is that those guys have no notion of democratic principles. They are trained to take their places in the military Great Chain of Being, to take orders from above and to dispense orders downwards. Civilians are on the bottom. We are the prisoners and they are the guards. I almost said they are the sheepdogs and we are the sheep, but I realized it was a poor analogy because the sheepdogs do operate in the interest of the sheep.