It was a beautiful fall afternoon and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini were taking the field for their first home game of the college football season.  Our national anthem was peformed and there was a flyby of American jets roaring over the top of the stadium.   Over 15,000 college kids, parents, and supporters started chanting USA! USA!  Thinking about it gives you the chills, doesn’t it?  Not this nimrod:  University of Illinois “Academic Professional” (And I use the term loosely) David Greene whined:

The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.

The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.

The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.

And this invertebrate is teaching American college students.   Jellyfish like this individual define normal American Patriotism as Jingoism:  : extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.

“Professor” Greene exhibits the symptoms of a disease that I’ve noticed that most of the Far Left exhibit:  Narcissistic-Reality-Denial-Over-Educated-Beyond-Their-Intelligence Syndrome.  The patient tends to rely on his self-assumed superior intellect, denying the reality of the world around him to the point of forsaking both his allegiance to and concern for the people of the country that has provided him with both his livelihood and his well-being.

Here’s an example of someone with this syndrome from Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s War.  

Woodward’s book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, Obama said:

We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.

Notice how the patient distances himself from the 3,000 innocent lives lost, in an effort to boost his own self-esteem.

This syndrome seems to be extremely pernicious in academic and political figures. The patient actually believes that he is an expert on everything, to the point where he can write and distribute instructional theses to seasoned professionals while lecturing them in a didactic manner.

In this patient’s case, frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama came up with his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page “terms sheet” that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports.

Per Woodward’s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives.

Obama told White House aides as he laid out his reasons for adding 30,000 troops in a short-term escalation:

This needs to be a plan about how we’re going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan.  Everything we’re doing has to be focused on how we’re going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint. It’s in our national security interest. There cannot be any wiggle room.

Obama rejected the military’s request for 40,000 troops.  He thought that expanding troops would lead to America being stuck in Afghanistan for a very long time.  Obama told Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a meeting on Oct. 26, 2009:

I’m not doing 10 years.  I’m not doing long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion dollars.

This syndrome causes patients to contradict themselves once they have committed others’  lives to a cause or mission.  It is all a part of the denial of reality, along with a self-imposed aloofness caused by feelings of superiority.

The only treatment for Narcissistic-Reality-Denial-Over-Educated-Beyond-Their-Intelligence Syndrome at this time is “refudiation” and isolation.  The people who are being affected by these individuals must, in a clear and over-whelming  manner, let the patient know that they do not accept their attitude or actions and put them in a “time-out”.  November 2nd, 2010 is the day scheduled for the start of this treatment.