I am not surprised at the eagerness by "elite"--how I hate that word--schools in the US to hire former US generals. Why should the news be surprising? When Amram Mitzna finished his stint as a commanding occupation general over the West Bank in the late 1980s, he accepted an offer at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. I was teaching at Tufts University at the time, and once sat across from him in a subway car. You can imagine what went through my mind at the time. Well, no, you can't.