<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>During the Vietnam War, some (mainly younger) American academic area specialists worked hard to dispel US government propaganda about that imperialist crime. </div><div><br></div><div>It's striking that such people have been largely absent throughout the last decade of the Bush/Obama War against the Greater Middle East. ("BOWAGME" is no worse than Bush's "Operation Iraqi Liberation" - hastily rechristened when the acronym gave away too much - or Obama's "overseas contingency operations.")</div><div><br></div><div>A generation of subtle thought-control successfully produced in our day a regime-friendly academy, where mentioning that there is a child-killer in the White House is not countenanced.</div><div><br></div><div>This particular trahison des clercs is partly made up for by the following collection of foreign academics, independent scholars, and journalists: </div><div><br></div><div><i><<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/07/jason-burke-key-books-muslim-extremism">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/07/jason-burke-key-books-muslim-extremism</a>>.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>--CGE</div><div><br></div><div>"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." </div><div>--W. H. Auden</div></body></html>