CNN:
Embattled professor won’t back down. A surgeon once told me, when I was sick, “Let me open you up. You know what they say, everyone’s got something wrong. It just takes enough digging around to find it.” I demurred; Churchill hasn’t got that option.
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I understand the point he was trying to make - September 11 was some of our chickens coming home to roost, essentially; I basically agree and am still annoyed that nobody is interested in trying to understand why lots of the planet hates us, or at least our government - but he picked a *very* bad metaphor. I understand wanting to use tendentious language to get people’s attention, but that’s a technique better suited to the Al Sharpton’s of the world than academics.
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