As Doug Feith’s 2-year term at Georgetown expires, several questions remain. Was his ouster organized by liberal faculty members? What does Foreign Service Dean Galluci think of it all? Has anyone at Georgetown ever been so much a war criminal (besides Henry Kissinger, obvs.)?

For a few Georgetown students, however, one question looms above all: how can we use an online petition to save him? Save Professor Feith and the Diversity of Thought worries that Feith is the SFS’s killer app: “We do not want to lose a preeminent foreign policy scholar to another university and jeopardize our status as the nation’s preeminent government and foreign policy institution.”

The petition’s been signed 59 people. But how many who signed are really concerned with diversity of thought and not motivated by other, more sinister agendas? According to the site, notable signatories include

• Henry Kissinger (Hard Knocks 2009)
• Dorit Feith (Michigan ‘07). Daughter?
• Feith Tortures. This signature was deleted, but it speaks to the petition’s persuasiveness if it could even win over that guy.

Can the internet, the medium which heaped so much ridicule on Feith, save his academic career? Probably not!

-Will Sommer, Blog Editor