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September 24, 2007

Confused Americans for Truth - Columbia University Has an Opportunity to Learn a Lesson

by Ferdinand T Cat

Columbia University took a lot of heat about its invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, so Columbia President Lee Bollinger needed to show that the invitation was to a real forum rather than an anti-American love-fest.

Before we go on: I'm not being cynical here. If Bollinger had always planned a real forum, it shows a healthy amount of spine. If he had originally planned a love-fest and along the way came to his senses, that's a good thing.

But either way, Bollinger committed a colossal blunder, which is that he was acting against the advice of a cat. As I have pointed out more than once, Ahmadinejad is a crazy person. As such, the Iranian President was totally unfazed by Bollinger's hard-hitting questions.

It's important to understand this aspect of what happened, because it's exactly why talking to these crazy dictators is not going to work. Barack Obama needs to know this. The Iraq Study Group needs to know this. Heck, the entire voting public needs to know this: you can't talk crazy people out of being crazy.

So please pay attention to what happened today at Columbia University. There's an important lesson to be learned, and when there are things to be learned on the campus of an academy of higher learning, it's a rare and beautiful thing that should not be missed.

Respectfull submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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Oh, please. Bollinger said from the beginning that he was going to take Ahmadinejad to task and, alas, he did just that. Bollinger wasn't caving to pressure- he's simply got balls the size of wagon wheels. Indeed, he exposed Ahmadinejad for what he is- a psychotic. That wasn't a mistake.


Posted by: rufus at September 24, 2007 5:51 PM

Don't be silly. Bollinger's questions were little more than name-calling. If he really wanted to confront Ahmadinejad, he would have brought some facts to the table. Instead, he called the guy "petty and cruel" and backed up his Holocaust assertion with nothing more than the fact that it's been well-documented. Lots of things that didn't happen have been well-documented. Ahmadinejad looked like a polite and respectful visitor being insulted by an ape. At least, that's what the Time magazine reporter on the scene thought (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665018,00.html).

Maybe when you're running an institute of higher learning the size of one's testicles is important, but when you're trying to prove a point, you need facts and logic. Bollinger had neither, and we are all paying for it.


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