A BRUTAL AND NECESSARY REMINDER OF WHO TOM NICHOLS IS. READ IT:

Hello Professor Nichols,

You spent twenty-five years at the Naval War College. You taught the officers who would go on to run America's wars. Famously, you never served in any of them.

In February 2003, you were at your desk in Newport when you wrote this, about Colin Powell’s… pic.twitter.com/1e2I2l1jEP

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