Daily Kos: Frederick Kagan is an Unqualified Fraud: Read His CV Here

by The Angry Rakkasan
Sun Jan 14, 2007 at 06:29:00 PM PST

Frederick Kagan is the neo-conservative scholar to whom George W. Bush listens. Working for the conservative think tank AEI, Kagan supposedly gives the Bush administration intellectual cover—as he is one of the few academic "experts" who supports the President’s ideas. He can often be found on C-SPAN, sitting on a distinguished-looking panel, articulating his views on the Iraq insurgency. He is admired by neo-conservatives around the world as being highly knowledgeable in this field, and he is said to have the ear of the President.

So what are Kagan’s credentials if he’s such an expert on the Iraq insurgency? Well, as it turns out, he’s actually completely unqualified, to a point that borders on fraud. Let’s take a look at his CV....