Comments on: James Kurth on The Protestant Deformation and American Foreign Policy http://deregnochristi.org/2008/01/08/james-kurth-on-the-protestant-deformation-and-american-foreign-policy/ The Reign of Christ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:15:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: swattie http://deregnochristi.org/2008/01/08/james-kurth-on-the-protestant-deformation-and-american-foreign-policy/#comment-2709 swattie Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:01:25 +0000 http://deregnochristi.org/2008/01/08/james-kurth-on-the-protestant-deformation-and-american-foreign-policy/#comment-2709 As much as I like Kurth—I had him as a professor last semester—I really can't see him as Secretary of State. He has a strange style of speaking that makes for engaging lectures, but would scare the heck out of me coming from the SecDef. He is also enormously pessimistic about our chances of dealing with terrorism in general, and basically seems to expect a successful nuclear attack within the next five years...because he thinks the government is utterly incapable of actually creating an effective border security regimen. In short, not the best choice politically. Still, he is quite a wonderful professor. Too bad he is retiring very very shortly. As much as I like Kurth—I had him as a professor last semester—I really can’t see him as Secretary of State. He has a strange style of speaking that makes for engaging lectures, but would scare the heck out of me coming from the SecDef.

He is also enormously pessimistic about our chances of dealing with terrorism in general, and basically seems to expect a successful nuclear attack within the next five years…because he thinks the government is utterly incapable of actually creating an effective border security regimen.

In short, not the best choice politically.

Still, he is quite a wonderful professor. Too bad he is retiring very very shortly.

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