The latest tactic in Iraq: anthropology

Source: AP

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - As David Matsuda tells it, he's probably the last person you'd expect to see in a U.S. military uniform climbing out of an armored vehicle in Iraq.

An anthropology professor from the East Bay campus of California State University near San Francisco, he's a self-described peacenik who opposed the war in Iraq, did his academic research in Guatemala and never carries a gun.

"I'm a Californian. I'm a liberal. I'm a Democrat," he says. "My impetus is to come here and help end this thing."

Matsuda is part of the U.S. military "Human Terrain Team" (HTT) program, which embeds anthropologists with combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan in the hope of helping tactical commanders in the field understand local cultures.

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It would have been preferable if they'd taken the time to learn about the local cultures before invading. As it is I guess it's better late than never.

Everything.

No no no can't get in the way of Golf Magazine or Bass Fishing monthly

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http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/trinquier/trinquier.asp

For more see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War

What was he doing down there? Supporting the Government against its own people? Even today the situation in Guatemala is NOT good, you have less killings but the causes of the Civil war have NOT yet been resolved. What was his role?

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/13/anthropologists_up_in_arms_over_pentagons

Guest:

David Price, associate professor of anthropology at St. Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington. He is a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists. He is also the author of “Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists” and his forthcoming book is called “Weaponizing Anthropology: American Anthropology and the Second World War.”

he's being used.

David Matsuda is nothing more than a propagandist. Its like they're trying to sell this war to people who would otherwise be anti-war. :mad: ...assholes