Lay that Pistol Down, Mansour

As quoted above, Mansour Farhad recently told the Chronicle of Higher Education that he’d as soon be shot in the head as live under either George W. Bush or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran.

Such a brave stance by a man living in beautiful, bucolic Bennington, Vermont, where he teaches at the local college. The leaves must be lovely up there this time of year--too beautiful, surely, to exit the scene so unceremoniously. For we can’t help but notice that the professor has already made his choice between the two leaders and has voted with his feet for Bush.

We’ll file his threat to leave the planet rather than live with Bush under “Empty Rhetoric” until we get word he’s bought a one-way ticket to Tehran.

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.