Just because professor says it doesn't make it true
Although I know that Thursday letter writer Ruth Yarrow is in the tiny minority, as is the writer of the article that told us that an academic believes that 4,050 have been killed by our bombs in Afghanistan, these are very disturbing thought processes.
No one should take the word of academics these days, even though they deny that they are anything but objective and lacking of any agenda. Universities are extremely left-wing and socialist, and anyone not seeing that and taking the word of an academic who has absolutely nothing to support his or her numbers needs to take a look at herself.
Beyond that, perhaps academics and those who believe them should ask the United States to plead insanity when this country is prosecuted for "crimes" in the International Court of Extreme Left Justice, because this government would have to be nuts to indiscriminately bomb anybody and allow thousands of civilians to die. I plead for people to recognize that universities are bastions of bizarre, delusional thought processes, and we should do anything but take what an academic spouts to be the automatic truth. I'm deeply ashamed that this paper would do just that.
Nick Powell Mill Creek