I’ll confess I’m getting a bit of cognitive dissonance with all this comment about how astounding it is that the latest batch of Brit Islamo-terrorists should be doctors. Barry Rubin in the NY Post (see NRO web briefing): “Consider … the kind of people who become doctors–relatively intelligent, well-organized, hard-working.” Really? I attended a British university with a large and famous teaching hospital attached. The medical students were pretty widely regarded as the dumbest on campus, and as the heaviest drinkers and stupidest pranksters. Of the five or six student rock groups, the medics’ was the loudest and worst. (Its name was “Perry Stalsis and his Abdo Men.”) My subsequent experience of doctors has done nothing to erase those early impressions. Sure, medical students have to memorize the names of a lot of little parts. So do auto mechanics. Sean Delonas was on my wavelength yesterday.