The Case against Churchill

[erunyauve_e]

They've finally found reason to fire Ward Churchill, but it took some doing. Churchill's comparison of the dead at the World Trade Center to Adolf Eichmann (implying that the victims were working for the very machinery that prompted the attack) could not pass unpunished, and the witch hunt was on.

Comments

[ithilwen]

I wish Churchill had been more been more careful with his scholarship, and hadn't left such openings for his political enemies to exploit. He was a useful gadfly.

[erunyauve_e]

I wish Churchill had been more been more careful with his scholarship, and hadn't left such openings for his political enemies to exploit.

I read quite a lot of the investigative committee's report (which was really quite readable, if you like history), and I felt they were very fair. You end up with a sense that you can't trust any of his facts and figures, and that's a shame because most of it is probably quite accurate.