Negroponte '60 to join Grand Strategy program
Ambassador John Negroponte ’60 will join Yale’s faculty in July, the University announced today.
Negroponte, who served until yesterday as deputy secretary of state and was previously the country’s first director of national intelligence, will spend at least three years at Yale. In that time, he will co-teach the Studies in Grand Strategy seminar and will also teach undergraduate and graduate courses in international studies and international relations, the University said.
John Gaddis, director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, said Negroponte brings a...
on hiring a war criminal
George Patsourakos
Yale is very fortunate that Ambassador John Negroponte has agreed to join its faculty in July, 2009 for at least three years. Negroponte has a wealth of experience in international affairs as well as in intelligence, having most recently served as America's deputy secretary of state. His unsurpassed practical experience will help to make him a superlative instructor in Yale's Studies in Grand Strategy seminar, as well as in international relations courses. Indeed, Yale students who take any of Negroponte's courses need to realize how lucky they are to have him as their instructor!
Ugh. I first learned of Mr. Negroponte while taking a class on Latin America my freshman year in 2000. As I read source after source, I was shocked at his cavalier attitude (if not his willing complicity) toward human rights violations in his capacity as ambassador to Honduras. I remember thinking "at least this guy no longer has any power." Of course then Bush comes into office.
Oh yes, do teach Yalies your Grand Strategy, Ambassador.
John Negroponte is a fine man and Yale is very fortunate to have him as an alum and a faculty member.
Irresponsible claims such as "war cominality" in which the left has so freely indulged and intoxicated itself over the past many years will very soon come back to haunt the new administration. For example, the Associated Press reports that President Obama will sign an executive order Thursday keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention center going for a year and suspending ongoing trials there for many months. So one more year of "criminality" and "torture" is acceptable? Unnecessary, politically motivated delays in ongoing trials do not abuse the rights of the accused? Who do the Obamoids think they're fooling?
Many years of bloated rhetoric, empty promises and wild accusations from the left are going to cause them a great deal of pain.
The OCD editors should Google Negroponte and pay particular attention to the article in the New York Review of Books and the Nation about Negroponte's complicity in the deaths of 200,000 citizens of Honduras.
Did Tony Blair feel lonely?
Perhaps Negroponte will demonstrate for Yale how he can run universities - in other nations, of course. According to Dr. Juan Almendares, the former rector of the University of Honduras and a critic of US involvement in Central America, Negroponte ordered him to resign his position. And then Negroponte put pressure on the Supreme Court of Honduras to annul Almendares' election as head of the university. All of this has been documented by Erling Borgen, a Norwegian journalist and filmmaker.
The New York Review of Books provides another perspective on this war criminal and his role in thousands of murders in Honduras. By the way, will his teaching of grand strategy include instructing students how they may best use death squads in making policy?
Another rat leaving the sunk ship...I wonder how many more will be hired? Maybe Dubya can become a tenured poly sci prof. Just think of the Class of 68 bucks that'll roll in.