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I think Professor Bulliet has done a great service to his students.

Great learning experience for Columbia students. He will probobly be used as an example in all the political courses from now on. Castro will look like a saint when compared.

In the same vein as those advocating free speech on the campus, I must support the author's right to express his opinion that the bay of pigs occurred in 1969. Presumably this get Pres. Kennedy off the hook as well, adding it to Pres. Nixon's plate.

In response to Steve L.

Speak for yourself, sir. That is your right here in this forum. However, do *not* speak for me because we shall have to agree to disagree.

Having lived abroad for over half of my life (beginning as a soldier in the US Army in once-time Hitler's Germany if you can imagine) I have, most unfortunately, observed my fellow countrymen entertaining your particular school of thought which does nothing but stoke the perpetuation of the term "Ugly American."

In this era of globalization, and whether we agree or otherwise, it is nothing shy of inhuman to believe we are not "diplomats" of this nation. Professional or not, it would behoove us all to behave as such--not only to visiting (and most especially *invited*) guests, but also to each other. Your words represent the very nature of an arrogance that has destroyed our collective credibility around the world and continues to deliver our children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, and beloved friends into the hell of war and destruction.

I have grown so weary of defending people not unlike yourself in my travels. What about that "Golden Rule" we were taught as children? It is a stinking, rotten shame that there is so much bitterness and misunderstanding over what could and should have been a supreme opportunity for a dialogue without prejudice. I shake (and hang) my head in disbelief at the utterly appalling behavior of Lee Bollinger.

The issue is not 1. whether "it's the responsibility of all prominent Americans to be "diplomats"; 2. or whether "the rest of us, Americans, are under any obligation to be "diplomatic" or "courteous"" when dealing with other human beings; 3. or else, whether non-Americans "can take it" or not when their American counterparts are ill-mannered or evidently uncivilized.

Respect for the rules of hospitality is first and foremost a matter of SELF-worth, of SELF-esteem, and above all, of SELF-respect.

Even the Bushmen of 22,000 years ago, even barbarians did respect the rules of hospitality.

It is true all of us, Americans, are at liberty, if we so wish, ever to remain beneath the level of sophistication displayed by Bushmen and barbarians.

We should just not be upset and complain whenever the world notices that we do.

The fact that when the people of Iran saw the students and Professors of Columbia applauding Ahmadinejad Iran's people may have lost any hope of any support (much less moral support) from the West to help them overthrow Ahmadinejad and the ruling Mullahs. So much for providing Ahmadinjad a forum as he will use the applauds of the Columbia students and professors as a tool to further his power and stature in the Middle East thus making war with Iran more likly, not less.

Futhermore if Richard W. Bulliet thinks that providing Ahmadinejad a platform at Columbia may actually help prevent a future war is both naive and arrogant. Ahmadinejad's objectives include the death of America, wiping Israel off the face of the Earth, public executing gays and women, murder of anyone in Iran who dares to question Islam or the power of Ahmmadinejad's overseers the Mullahs, etc. etc. So when I hear the students and Professors of Columbia applauding Ahmadinejad, it makes me sick at heart and fearful for our children's future.

From reading the comments already posted, it's clear that many folks seem to think that it's the responsibility of all prominent Americans to be "diplomats." But we live in a free society and our Constitution makes no such requirement of any of us.

Diplomacy is for professional diplomats. Mr. Bollinger is not, and I am not. The rest of us Americans are under no obligation to be "diplomatic" or "courteous" when dealing with such as Ahmedinijad. We can and should exercise our right of free speech to call him out in the strongest possible language. Some ask, what message will that send to the rest of the world? Hopefully it will send the message that in America, everyone thinks for himself and most Americans can't be rolled or impressed with some foreigner's diplomatic status.

Americans who travel abroad are routinely lectured on the alleged evils of our government and even of our society. The tut-tutting never stops, and none of the citizens of those foreign countries ever give the slightest thought to being "diplomatic" with Americans.

Apparently the people of other countries can dish it out on Americans but they can't take it. Perhaps Mr. Bollinger's words taught them that Americans are learning how to answer them back.

The hypocrisy of the left on this issue knows no bounds:

Right now, at Stanford University, 2,000 professors and students have signed a petition to keep Donald Rumsfeld out of the Hoover Institution, on the grounds that his views are not fit for Stanford.

At Columbia last year, representatives of the anti-immigrant Minutemen were met by left-wing student mobs that attempted to break up their public discourse. They said that the Minutemen had "no right" (their words) to speak at Columbia.

Just once, I would like to see liberals defend the rights of right-wing speakers the same way they defend the right of Ahmedinijad to speak at Columbia.

My guess is that all the same liberals who think it was cool to allow Ahmedinijad to speak at Columbia would work very hard to deny Bush or Condoleeza Rice or Donald Rumsfeld that same opportunity. Even though they are Americans and Ahmedinijad is not.

The hypocrisy of the left on this issue knows no bounds:

Right now, at Stanford University, 2,000 professors and students have signed a petition to keep Donald Rumsfeld out of the Hoover Institution, on the grounds that his views are not fit for Stanford.

At Columbia last year, representatives of the anti-immigrant Minutemen were met by left-wing student mobs that attempted to break up their public discourse. They said that the Minutemen had "no right" (their words) to speak at Columbia.

Just once, I would like to see liberals defend the rights of right-wing speakers the same way they defend the right of Ahmedinijad to speak at Columbia.

My guess is that all the same liberals who think it was cool to allow Ahmedinijad to speak at Columbia would work very hard to deny Bush or Condoleeza Rice or Donald Rumsfeld that same opportunity. Even though they are Americans and Ahmedinijad is not.

I am looking at universities for my daughter, and Columbia is permanently scratched off the list of potential destinations. Giving this vile man a very tall podium while denying the ROTC a place on campus tells me all I need to know about the faculty and student body at UC.

Thanks for the heads-up so I can cross you off the list without wasting much time.

Lee Bollinger is a disgrace. His introduction for President Ahmadinejad was nothing less than a crass tirade. It puts Columbia University in a very bad light. What type of uncultured buffoon invites an honored guest to an event and then publicly attempts to humilate him?

Bollinger should tender his resignation as president immediately. He is not fit to hold that position.

Where have most of you been hiding? The President of Iran has repeatedly stated his intents and the intents of Iran. What part of a fascist totalitarian world calliphate don't you understand? Didn't any of you listen to his rant at the UN? Couched in all those flowery words about "love" and "peace" and "can't we all just get along" was the veiled threat that there was only one way to exist in this world and that was his way. There was no "debate" at Columbia University, no "freedom of speech" exhibited where opposing views are discussed in the spirit of the free exchange of ideas. What we viewed was the Iranian version of Daniel entering the lion's den and leaving unscathed. This was a propaganda moment for consumption in the Middle East and Ahmadeinejad scored big. The only question of courage came from Karnit Goldwasser and it of course wasn't answered as she was shown the door.

Mr Mad Mood Amad Dinner Jdog has had three major speaking engagements on the sovereign soil of the United States of America. To my knowledge the 'great debate' used by Columbia and his other supporters to justify his visits has yet to take place. Mad Mood Amad Dinner Jdog only lectured. He fake an exchange of ideas but failed to answer many important questions, or responded to questions with ranting diatribe often outside the context of the inquiry.

Providing forums outside the UN for this mad man were not necessary to gain an understanding of the man, his country, or their collective policies. Nothing he said changed my knowledge of the man that was different from what I have learned since his election. There are too many sources of information readily available for anyone to honestly claim that we can not really know the man until we see him in person.

This is for Mr. Bollinger and Mr. Ahmadinejad; “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline (Proverbs 1:7). Please let us, as Americans, not despise Godly wisdom (wisdom that’s greater then what our carnal worldly wisdom can think up). America let’s turn from our wickedness and go back to our foundations…turn and seek the wisdom and discipline that can only come from the Lord God.

Proverbs 2:6-12 (The Holy Bible)
6 "For the LORD gives wisdom,
and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He holds victory in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then you will understand what is right and just
and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
and understanding will guard you.
12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from men whose words are perverse"

I truly believe that the words of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are perverse and meant only to harm the United States and the entire western world. He is a very integral part of the Islamofascism ideology orchestrated by the Devil to destroy all who have faith in Jesus Christ. Dictatorship and hatred are the tools he has been given for destruction of all those that will not bow down to his form of Islam. Please don’t view this as just some quirky comments from a strong Christian believer but as a call to turn back to our Christian roots, to call on the name of Jesus Christ for His wisdom and power, that he will protect our land and heal our nation. God Bless you all!

From another thread:

The final words of Theo Van Gogh have (without irony) become the mantra of the left:

"Surely we can talk about this."

Why all the condemnation of Bollinger? Was he not demonstrating his freedom of speech? I am a bit amazed that some posters here are condemning the razing of a tyrant.

I am glad that Columbia University allowed this Persian to speak. I am now convinced he must not be allowed to get nuclear weapons.

One person Mahmoud Ahmadinejad didn’t expect to see at his UN press conference: Karnit Goldwasser, wife of kidnapped soldier Ehud Goldwasser.

“During the questions we made eye contact, we looked at each other more than once. The look on his face changed the moment he realized who was facing him and what I wanted from him,” Karnit Goldwasser, wife of kidnapped soldier Ehud Goldwasser, said after her meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York.

Goldwasser managed to enter Ahmadinejad’s press conference at the United Nations building in New York on Tuesday, and told Ynet that the she was surprised by the treatment the Iranian leader received upon his arrival.

“He came in and started to smile at everyone. The reporters gave him great respect... As he walked by me he said hi to me, because he still didn’t know who I was. He thought I was one of the supporting journalists, and that he was walking into a place where everyone loved him. He seemed very pleased,” Goldwasser recounted.

Goldwasser said she was not afraid to present the president with her question, and asked him, “Hello, my name is Karnit, the wife of Ehud Goldwasser, the soldier who has been held captive for over a year. Since you are the man that is behind the kidnapping due to the aid you grant Hizbullah, why don’t you allow the Red Cross to visit the two soldiers?” she asked.

The president ignored the question.

Security guards then removed her from the room.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3453738,00.html

Just consider, for a moment, if you would be appalled in the same fashion if CU President Bollinger had invited David Duke to speak and rebuked Duke in the same fashion? I tnink not. Yet Duke hasn't authorized the killing of hundreds of homosexuals nor has he funded Hezbollah and aided them in the killing of many innocents in Israel. Just consider the complete and utter moral bankruptcy of your position as you deal in theory and in rich hypocrisy.

I am from Iran.
I have always found american people to be completely unaware of Iranian people & their culture.

visit this site if you want to know more:
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I remember that I read something from the famous actor Sean Penn about his trip to Iran but I can not find the website now!

I am finding important to summaries Ahmad's legacy after his short but not controversial visit as it is reported in some newspapers and Washington Post.

In a very short note Ahmadinejad’s visit was presuming SABOTAGE in ideological and if it works also in political arena.

In addition I imagine all this being a very much educational experience for the students of Columbia University: I will name it “When and Why the Political Creditability weaves in Jeopardy”.

I am finding important to summaries Ahmad's legacy after his short but not controversial visit as it is reported in some newspapers and Washington Post.

In a very short note Ahmadinejad’s visit was presuming SABOTAGE in ideological and if it works also in political arena.

In addition I imagine all this being a very much educational experience for the students of Columbia University: I will name it “When and Why the Political Creditability weaves in Jeopardy”.

How odd...the Minutemen founder was not able to speak, having been attacked by the rabid left wing fanatics at the school...yet Junior Hitler was given the star treatment. Democrats never cease to amaze me.

I am sure that Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger was under heavy attack from the governmental organizations for Ahmadinejad's invitation. He was pressurized to make a harsh and hostile presentation. Unfortunately, that does not work well in practice. Bollinger had to maintain complete confidence and control despite the ongoing pressure; to avoid aftermath of two side attacks. I hope this pretty intelligent diplomatic effort will not end his career, not like that!

How odd...the Minutemen founder was not able to speak, having been attacked by the rabid left wing fanatics at the school...yet Junior Hitler was given the star treatment. Democrats never cease to amaze me.

I am sure that Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger was under heavy attack from the governmental organizations for Ahmadinejad's invitation. He was pressurized to make a harsh and hostile presentation. Unfortunately, that does not work well in practice. Bollinger had to maintain complete confidence and control despite the ongoing pressure; to avoid aftermath of two side attacks. I hope this pretty intelligent diplomatic effort will not end his career, not like that!

How odd...the Minutemen founder was not able to speak, having been attacked by the rabid left wing fanatics at the school...yet Junior Hitler was given the star treatment. Democrats never cease to amaze me.

The people who should have been given a voice at Columbia University are those who are being oppressed and silenced in today's Iran. It would not have been Ahmadinejad; it would have been Iran's homosexuals, the journalists, the champions of women's rights, and the persecuted religious minorities. These are the people who Columbia University should have honoured and allowed to speak freely. Not given a podium and audience for a "petty and cruel dictator." Ahmadinejad has too many fora world-wide through which to spread his lies; he doesn't need yet another one.

I am sure that Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger was under heavy attack from the governmental organizations for Ahmadinejad's invitation. He was pressurized to make a harsh and hostile presentation. Unfortunately, that does not work well in practice. Bollinger had to maintain complete confidence and control despite the ongoing pressure; to avoid aftermath of two side attacks. I hope this pretty intelligent diplomatic effort will not end his career, not like that!

I am sure that Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger was under heavy attack from the governmental organizations for Ahmadinejad's invitation. He was pressurized to make a harsh and hostile presentation. Unfortunately, that does not work well in practice. Bollinger had to maintain complete confidence and control despite the ongoing pressure; to avoid aftermath of two side attacks. I hope this pretty intelligent diplomatic effort will not end his career, not like that!

I am sure that Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger was under heavy attack from the governmental organizations for Ahmadinejad's invitation. He was pressurized to make a harsh and hostile presentation. Unfortunately, that does not work well in practice. Bollinger had to maintain complete confidence and control despite the ongoing pressure; to avoid aftermath of two side attacks. I hope this pretty intelligent diplomatic effort will not end his career, not like that!

On April 15, 1969, just ten days short of the second anniversary of Castro’s speech at Harvard, the United States launched the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

Professor Richard W. Bulliet should consult with his colleagues on American history. The Bay of Pigs was in 1961, not 1969. How on earth could a history professor make such an obvious stupid error?

Isn't the opposite also possible? By giving Ahmadinejad a platform to spread his lies, Columbia has helped strengthened his politcal position in Tehran, making an eventual confrontation between Iran and the rest of the world all the more likely.

Well said, thank you.

The fact that Dr. Bollinger's tirade was inappropriate for an invited guest is irrelevant, as this was simply to assuage the inevitable guilt over providing a respectable forum for the genocidal racist. Bulliet and Bollinger have made themselves into useful idiots.

The real problem with Ahamdinejad speaking at Columbia are twofold: first if Dr. Bollinger really believes what he said (that the Iranian leader is a either speaking from incredible ignorance or malice) then that is in and of itself a reason not to invite him to speak at Columbia. After all, not being an artist myself, should I demand and expect the right to speak on art at Columbia? I have an absolute right of free speech don't I? Yet no one reading this would consider it appropriate that me, a non-artist, be invited to Columbia to speak about art.

The second problem is that what Ahmadinejad says is vicious, no matter how civilized his tone and demeanor. From the hanging of homosexuals, jailing of Bahia's, to denial of the Holocaust even as a plans another one this Iranian regime spouts nothing but war and oppression. Just where does Dr. Bulliet expect to find dialogue in there? Is there any part of that agenda he can live with? History shows time and time again (and Dr. Bulliet seems to be rather short on his knowledge of history) that dialogue with fascists and tyrants does not work. No true democrat (with a small "d") can have any truck with that. To Dr. Bulliet I would only quote Arlo Guthrie's bumper sticker that he kept pasted on his guitar: "This machine fights fascism". I suggest he start doing the same.

How very elite of you. This "man" that you invited to Columbia is responsible for the torture (and I'm not talking about panties on prisoners heads) and death of many, including our own military. Women in Iran are being arrested for not wearing their religious clothing and knowing their place. He has stated "Death to America and Death to Israel" on numerous occasions. He is probably voted "most likely" to detonate the next nuclear bomb. Columbia is acting like they are oh so much smarter than the rest of the country; yet your "free speech" advocates shouted down McCain, and the "Minuteman"; and anyone else with a conservative view. There is a difference between freedom of speech and hate speech or propaganda. Such a "fine" university should have students intelligent enough to know the difference. Hypocrisy, thy name is Columbia.

While I've never really been a fan of the Hitler comparison for Ahmadinejad (having only to do with the facts of each of these creeps, and nothing deeper about my own desires), I do think that we'd be idiots to allow Iran to become a nuclear power the same way Europe in the 1930s were idiots for letting Hitler amass his power.

This belief has little to do with Ahmadinejad himself. He's a puppet of theocratic masters.

Mr. Bullit may scoff at the notion that Hitler should've been stopped, forcibly if necessary, before it was too late. But history is what it is, not what we'd rather it be. The unwillingness to do so and the strong desire to talk with him, no different than now, only ensured a deep bloody war...it did nothing to avert it.

The real timing issue regarding Bay of Pigs was that it happened after Castro had announced his intention to ally with and to model his dictatorship after the then-still-expansionist Soviet empire.

Seems to me that Bulliet's strongest point is that inviting Ahmadinejad has given the current generation of grad students an "I was there" story about an episode when a major U.S. university debased itself as a propaganda platform for a dictator intent on damaging U.S. interests. Bollinger's otherwise excellent bill of particulars put Columbia in the squalid position of meeting its invited guest with attacks that were all the more vicious for being true.

The whole exercise shined an interesting spotlight on academic vanity.

The real timing issue regarding Bay of Pigs was that it happened after Castro had announced his intention to ally with and to model his dictatorship after the then-still-expansionist Soviet empire.

Seems to me that Bulliet's strongest point is that inviting Ahmadinejad has given the current generation of grad students an "I was there" story about an episode when a major U.S. university debased itself as a propaganda platform for a dictator intent on damaging U.S. interests. Bollinger's otherwise excellent bill of particulars put Columbia in the squalid position of meeting its invited guest with atacks that were all the more vicious for being true.

The whole exercise shined an interesting spotlight on academic vanity.

Hitler was a product of the 1930's depression and a world that had just experienced tranformation to an industrial age. Electricity was a luxury back then and radio was beginning to lead the way to mass communication (in a one way).

A bit different than the world of today, with instant communication and modern exchanges, web sites (including this blog).

Thus the isolation of Ahmadinejad on the grounds of being the precursor to another mass murder is absurd.

I especially liked Ahmadinejad's response to an Israeli reporter in his press conference: The Soviet Union was wiped off the map by the vote of people in USSR!

I now presume that the AIPAC lobby wants to ban the ballot box, or highly transform it to a ballot box of its own design.......

Grow up America!

Reading the comments regarding the Iranian President's speach at Columbia University, I am appalled at the level of ignorance displayed in a country that promotes freedom of speech. Americans are the most imprisoned thinkers in the world and that's why there president can lie to them and still stay in office for a further 4 years. I suppose when half the population votes and half of that number votes for the president he can basically make decisions about your life, whether you like it or not i.e. Patriot Act. you are the least free in the free world, and your comments are indicative of it.

reading the comments regarding the Iranian President's speach at Columbia University, I am appalled at the level of ignorance displayed in a country that promotes freedom of speach. Americans are the most imprisoned thinkers in the world and that's why there president can lie to them and still stay in office for a further 4 years. I suppose when half the population votes and half of that number votes for the president he can basically make decisions about your life, whether you like it or not i.e. Patriot Act. you are the least free in the free world, and your comments are indicative of it.

"Atithi Devo Bhavah" ... A Guest is a God.

This is how we in India treat our guests, no matter what problems one might have with him/her in any respect. And, people experience that "warmth" when they visit India.

Therefore, for me the Columbia University fiasco was shocking. That how could the president of a reputed academic institution behave in such an uncultured manner with his guest? That what message will his conduct convey to the world about American culture?

Even if we talk in terms of plain international diplomacy, then also it was a golden opportunity lost: to listen to, understand and engage with a world leader constructively, and devise appropriate strategies in order to diffuse the current volatility in the US-Iran relationship.

It was simply stupid and idiotic and extremely myopic on part of Bollinger who, I am sure, would have acted on behest of Bush.

Professor Bulliet forgot a minor detail in his article: Columbia is no Harvard. Lee Bollinger is obviously less intelligent than a Harvard dropout.

I absolutely agree with Norm Grant: I am glad he doesn't live over here either. Norm, all the good Europeans came over here already quite some time ago, including my family. But don't worry-- we still love Europe, enough to pull its sorry declining ass out of war after war every time it dabbles in more enlightened genocide or progressive political lunacy. Call us anytime!

Ahmadinejad was denied ground zero visit though his nation help us toppling taliban.Colombia president showed true nature of our self. Greek, Persian,Indian & Chinese cultures are amazing. Even after Greenspan uttered the magic oil word nothing happens. GAO reports thousands of arms missing under Petraeus while he was training Iraqi police & army, politicians wait for his report really wonder how we got the title "Lone super power".

To Sharon Walker 2

Disturbing mindset. No One needs to "take a bullet for their country" on this matter. Free speech is a virtue even if you personally don't like the speaker. remember who burned the books and eliminated the opposition parties in the 1940's. Who is Goliath really? Now I mean.

Dear Friends and Mr. Bulliet:

All due respects, would you take a bullet for your country, fellow man, fellow woman, President, your brother, sister, mother or father?

God Bless you. Psalms. David remember was prepared. Are you???

A welcome break in the fog. However brief and tempered by the introduction. The US/global media is so effective at silencing critics and criticisms of Israel that it's entertaining to see someone break through even if only to be hammered for trying. Oh well. At least this nut is hardly worthy of our sympathy. The silence remains golden. The thicker Israel and its proponents lay on the fog the more desperate we all are for a fog horn. If the fog were only lifted i believe we'd find that the good people of the world CAN speak critically without hatred or prejudice. Some things Mr. Ahmadinejad may not be capable of. Israel and it's proponents ought to put more confidence in the overwhelming goodness of humanity. A tall order considering the 1940's but essential none the less. Behaviors are so cyclical. best to allow new and better cycles to develop rather than throwing the brakes on the old one. We've seen the consequences of the old one. Let it pass. Let the people talk.

Would Bollinger have invited Bush for a talk at Columbia and m ade similar introductory remarks ?

This war is not about world leaders, varying political views, economics, or even terrorism. I just want to say that this is not a war on terror for that is a tactic and not an enemy. This is a spiritual war against Islamofascism and its ideology. This ideology wants to destroy everyone who will not submit to its form of Islam. The Western culture, especially the Christian sector of its people, is extremely hated by this group of radicals that spans over many nations (not just Iraq and Iran).

Ephesians 6:12 says (The Holy Bible)
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

This war will not be won by political savvy, military strength, or economics. This war can only be fought and won on our knees in prayer. As a country founded on Christian principals I want to urge all of us to pray, pray daily for the battle is not ours but the Lord’s. This is the battlefield and this is the only way we will prevail. Pray for peace, for love, for truth and revelation.

For more answers go to:
http://www.answering-islam.org/index.html

Ladies and gentlemen, that post from Anonymous ought to be considered a beauty, indeed a classic, and be studied very closely! So much can be learned from Anonymous.

According to Anonymous, Columbia's crime was not to have been more concerned about "cries of protest from Jewish Americans" (with whom "every other American with a working cortex" must be in agreement, of course), than with "freedom of speech"!

Columbia's initiative was all the more unacceptable, says Anonymous, given "they are funded with state and federal dollars", i.e. (according to Anonymous) "by the people they give the shaft to". This suggests most Americans ("with a working cortex", that is) must be Jewish Americans and/or in agreement with them!

Anonymous concludes: "A logical (!) conclusion would be that the faculty & students must agree with Ahmadinejad or he would not be there." -- So if he was there (as he undoubtedly was), it must be because one was in agreement with him; because, should one not have been in agreement with him, he should/would not have been there!!!

That, ladies and gentlemen, is what freedom of expression means, that is how freedom of expression should be put into practise, according to a vocal supporter of the "cries of protest from Jewish Americans"!

I believe those Anonymous would undoubtedly call "anti-semites" would be hard pressed to beat Anonymous at his own game!

Ahmadinejad is not the "leader" of Iran and has no real power he's just a mouthpeice for the mullahs. What you hear him say is what themullah's and Khamenei (supreme leader) tell him to say

"bogeyman of American politics"
Don't you mean of "bogeyman of free people around the world?" His country is extremely oppressive, he condones terrorist behavior, and don't forget their so-called "nuclear ambitions," as the Iranian president puts it.

"value and peril inherent in one of America's most precious ideals"
What peril? Peril implies risk or exposure to some type of danger. Are you insinuating that because of Mr. Bollinger's words that he should be in some type of danger? Or that "peril" should come about because of someone's words? He asserted his opinion and did not say that we should go to war with Iran. Referring to Mr. Bollinger's comments as a "case study" of the "...peril inherent in (free speech)" is ludicrous.

"who Ahmadinejad really is"
Who is this man behind the rhetoric?
He regularly has people killed in his country that do not agree with the politics and thinks the Holocaust "should be reexamined" from a different point of view. I'd like to know this "different" point of view.

"the assumption that Ahmadinejad harbors a fanatical desire to carry out similar crimes"
Israel? He need not be "fanatical" to have a desire to carry out similar crimes. Look into how he treats his own people.

"As for the drift towards war, I’m not sure that it was affected. Castro’s strategy of reaching out to the American people with the populist style that worked so well for him in Cuba did not ultimately succeed. On April 15, 1969, just ten days short of the second anniversary of Castro’s speech at Harvard, the United States launched the Bay of Pigs fiasco."
I would rank Castro possibly a bit more higher in "human being-ness", I don't think he ever exclaimed to want to rid of an entire country. Although, comparably, he did treat dissendents similarly to the Iranian president.

"slight, relaxed, well-mannered Iranian who sat stolidly through President Bollinger's blistering attack, and even evinced a sense of humor"
It seems that anyone I've read who has posted with any "positive" reactions towards the Iranian president seem to ONLY highlight his outward appearances and reactions...how he portrays himself. As if those who mention these aspects do not realize the deeper meaning and truth behind who this person is behind the facade. It explains how, in some instances, people can get away with atrocities for a good while, because as they always say "I would've never thought. They sure didn't act crazy (or fanatical)." Appearances aren't always what they seem.

In case you were trying to draw parallels between Castro & Ahmadinejad, its a wee weak. I don't think anyone is concerned about being nuked from the Cubans. Of course maybe Columbia should invite him next, is that what you are suggesting? Call Bollinger he just might love your idea.

Columbia's total lack of concern for N.Y. & for the rest of the U.S. is obvious. They were more concerned about their "freedom of speech" than cries of protest from Jewish Americans (and every other American with a working cortex). Yet they are funded with state and federal dollars by the people they give the shaft to.

Columbia needs to stop trying to insult our intelligence by hiding behind "freedom of speech" when they refuse to let conservatives views/ROTC be heard because they don't agree with them. A logical conclusion would be that the faculty & students must agree with Ahmadinejad or he would not be there. Obviously Iranian terrorists are more welcome than some Americans on Columbia grounds.

That is what needs to be defended by the school & Bollinger. Explain that.

Thank you Mr. Bollinger for killing the messenger. If there is going to be a war with the mullahs, you will be remembered as the starting point and the catalyst. I am sure the mullahs will never again come for debate or discussion. They will think you represent america and continue doing whatever they are doing, just 10x faster. You just burnt the most important bridge we needed now.