Professor Feith and the huge, fat, orange weapon of mass destruction

I checked into a report at Note Parlante de Point that Douglas Feith had been hired to teach at Georgetown. Apparently it's true.

Here's part of the syllabus for the class he's teaching.

POLI SCI 430

Fiction Driven Foreign Policy
(Fall 2006)


Douglas J. Feith
An undisclosed Location


COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces students to the use of fiction to promote foreign policy initiatives. Students will study the latest methods for undermining reality-based analysis using fantasy, fiction, treachery, torture and ad hominem argumentation.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1. General Requirements

Students are expected to:

# make outrageous claims and defend them by viciously attacking anyone who tries to refute them by employing logic.

# Convince the rest of the class that the instructor is not the stupidest fucking person they've ever met.

# Convince the dean of the School of Foreign Service that the instructor deserves tenure as a reward for establishing that ties exist between the Women's Studies Program and the heretofore unknown Islamunist Revolutionary Front.

# Demonstrate that the Syracuse mascot, a huge fat orange, is in fact a mobile biological weapons lab and a contributor to Move On.

# Be prepared to inflict pain slightly less agonizing that which is associated with organ failure to randomly selected classmates.

# Successfully defend one of the following claims:
A) Ronald Reagan invented television
B) Ann Coulter is a woman
C) Intelligent Design is Science
D) We've turned the corner in Iraq

GRADE COMPILATIONS
Students' final grades will be compiled based upon:

* Inflicting pain slightly less than that experienced during organ failure (10%)
* Convincing student Senate to pass a resolution calling for the death or enslavement of The George Washington University studentbody (20%)
* Betraying a CIA Agent (30%)
* Getting tenure for the instructor (50%)
* Assassinating that shifty looking professor of French Studies(10 %)
* Convincing the Washington Post to print an article declaring that the above grade compilations total 100% (1%--it's too easy)

REQUIRED READINGS- Bookstore
Students are expected to make up an academic sounding title and convince the dean that they read it and that it confirms whatever the instructor claims during lectures.