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TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Georgetown University Terminates Douglas Feith

TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Georgetown University Terminates Douglas Feith: "It's not much but it's something. Georgetown University has decided not to renew Doug Feith's contract.

Word from campus is that both students and faculty had pretty much had it with the arch war criminal walking around campus although I also heard that he is such a goofy, pathetic guy that some students felt sorry for him. One told me, 'he's like the nerdiest loser I ever saw. He cannot have done the things he's accused of. He's too obtuse.'

I told her to read Arendt's 'The Banality of Evil.'

In any case, the Jesuits have done themselves proud by, at long last, giving Feith his walking papers. I wonder where we'll turn up next. In a McCain administration or in the dock at the Hague?"

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