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Fifteen-hundred dead because of what you did!” This and other jeers were thrown at Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith ’75 as he spoke at an Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum on March 3. The contentious nature at the Forum was not at all surprising given that Feith was defending the war in Iraq, and he was undoubtedly prepared for this. But the heckling Feith received from some audience members went beyond asking tough questions and showed a complete lack of decorum. Such behavior is simply unacceptable...
...Forum is a chance for politicians or experts to express their opinions and then have their viewpoints questioned in a hard but polite manner. At the same time, the IOP needs to ensure that speakers are challenged during the question session—which some claim Feith was not—and it should tweak the question-and-answer format in order to achieve this goal...
During the course of the question-and-answer session, an attendee brandished a sign calling Feith a “war criminal,” prompting a Harvard University Police Department to confiscate...
...That’s not the spirit we’re going for at Harvard and I’m quite frankly ashamed of the display I saw tonight,” he said, adding that he personally enjoyed the speech, although he disagreed with some of what Feith said...
Kennedy School of Government first-year student Steve W. Aldridge, a supporter of Feith, said that the audience’s behavior was a reaction to Feith’s political affiliation...