Myron I understand your comments on “Defense Research”. Keeping your integrity in our industry does require a certain amount of “difficult swallowing” from time-to-time.

Those academicians who suck up to Hugo, Vladimir, Muammar: Being a troubadour to these jackasses entails money, publicity, power, fame. They count a lot more in this life than integrity. I daresay that Ilana Mercer as a knee-jerk conservative lapdog of the Coulter-Hannity variety could garner a far greater audience (at the cost of your conscience and my condemnation!) .

The ultimate academic suckup was Arthur Schlesinger, the Kennedy Court Troubadour, treated as an “objective” historian by the so-called academic community.

Another great feature of these idiot savants is to find NUANCE where none exists like the “moderate Palestinians”, “good Nazis”, “realistic communists”, “feminist Islamists” etc. in their dream world. Some thuggish dictator with an MD like Assad who wears a fashionable suit or plays piano is elevated into some urbane statesman. And Mao was merely an agrarian reformer (tell it to the 75,000,000 who got reformed into the world of the dead!)