Comments on: More on War http://savageminds.org/2007/06/26/more-on-war/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Fri, 25 May 2012 02:33:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: KAT9 http://savageminds.org/2007/06/26/more-on-war/comment-page-1/#comment-100399 KAT9 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:41:51 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/06/26/more-on-war/#comment-100399 My copy finally came. Roberto Gonzalez's article on McFate and Kilcullen's authorship of portions of the military's Counterinsurgency Field Manual scares the hell out of me, but when added to the first installment of the piece on anthropological contributions to the CIA's torture manual, I have to wonder how anthropologists see themselves as political actors. What ever happened to those anti-war, anti-torture propositions passed by the AAA members at the business meeting and then sent to the members? Gonzalez's claims are very serious. That McFate and Kilcullen not only did not deny any of Gonzalez's claims, but so brashly justified their use of anthropology to assist in the invasion, killings and occupation of Iraq should be condemned by individual anthropologists and groups like the AAA. I'm going back to the field in a few weeks and I'm increasingly worried that McFate and Kicullen are going to get me kidnapped and murdered in their efforts to help Bush establish global hegemony. My copy finally came. Roberto Gonzalez’s article on McFate and Kilcullen’s authorship of portions of the military’s Counterinsurgency Field Manual scares the hell out of me, but when added to the first installment of the piece on anthropological contributions to the CIA’s torture manual, I have to wonder how anthropologists see themselves as political actors. What ever happened to those anti-war, anti-torture propositions passed by the AAA members at the business meeting and then sent to the members?

Gonzalez’s claims are very serious. That McFate and Kilcullen not only did not deny any of Gonzalez’s claims, but so brashly justified their use of anthropology to assist in the invasion, killings and occupation of Iraq should be condemned by individual anthropologists and groups like the AAA.

I’m going back to the field in a few weeks and I’m increasingly worried that McFate and Kicullen are going to get me kidnapped and murdered in their efforts to help Bush establish global hegemony.

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