My @#$@ Washington Post delivery has been late the past few days, so I missed out on this article detailing a very interesting kind of social studies class available at several DC area colleges:

In the view of [Professor Dennis Pluchinsky], a veteran State Department analyst, the only way to understand terrorism is to understand how its practitioners think. So the centerpiece of a popular course he teaches as an adjunct professor at several Washington area universities is nothing less than a hypothetical plan of attack.

To me, it sounds similar in intent to the nuclear war classes that were available when I was in college back in the '80s. The professor is right to be very careful. I could definitely see some brown-nosing fed deciding to "make an example" of all this to push a career.

Via Bigwig.