Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Mission Accomplished...
...for Ahmadinejad. He told his side of the story, surrounded by a hostile crowd, and won them over with intellect, charm, and the truth, praise be to Allah.
Or so says the Iranian News Service:
If you saw M.A.'s appearance, you know this article describes what happened, kind of, but more to the point, not at all. It is, however, an entirely predictable piece of propaganda that shows why Columbia should never have given this terrorist a forum in the first place.
If there were a Congressional Medal of Dishonor, I would nominate Lee Bollinger.
Or so says the Iranian News Service:
Despite entire US media objections, negative propagation and hue and cry in recent days over IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's scheduled address at Colombia University, he gave his lecture and answered students questions here on Monday afternoon.
On second day of his entry in New York, and amid standing ovation of the audience that had attended the hall where the Iranian President was to give his lecture as of early hours of the day, Ahmadinejad said that Iran is not going to attack any country in the world.
Before President Ahamadinejad's address, Colombia University Chancellor in a brief address told the audience that they would have the chance to hear Iran's stands as the Iranian President would put them forth.
He said that the Iranians are a peace loving nation, they hate war, and all types of aggression.
Referring to the technological achievements of the Iranian nation in the course of recent years, the president considered them as a sign for the Iranians' resolute will for achieving sustainable development and rapid advancement.
The audience on repeated occasion applauded Ahmadinejad when he touched on international crises.
At the end of his address President Ahmadinejad answered the students' questions on such issues as Israel, Palestine, Iran's nuclear program, the status of women in Iran and a number of other matters. [HT: Drudge]
If you saw M.A.'s appearance, you know this article describes what happened, kind of, but more to the point, not at all. It is, however, an entirely predictable piece of propaganda that shows why Columbia should never have given this terrorist a forum in the first place.
If there were a Congressional Medal of Dishonor, I would nominate Lee Bollinger.
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2 comments:
Philip Klein added this over at the AmSpecBlog:
http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=8330
Two basic arguments were employed by those who defended Columbia's invitation to Ahmadinejad. The first was a straw man--that he shouldn't be "barred" from speaking at campus. But given that most critics weren't calling for the NYPD to prevent Ahmadinejad from speaking, this was not the issue. The argument was not over whether Columbia had the right to invite him, but whether it was right to invite him.
The second defense was that by holding Ahmadinejad up to tough questioning, it would show him for who he was. But none of the absurd statements he made at Columbia gave us any better insight into what a lunatic he is than his past statements.
Those two points by Klein capture my thoughts exactly, I couldn't have stated it any better.
Here's another way he can get a PR victory from this: by saying that he (M.A.) was willing to visit US and subject himself to that debate, whereas no US leader will do the same in Iran, he will claim that proves that he is not scared of the US but we are scared of Iran.
This guy needs to be marginalized as quickly and effectively as possible. The Columbia invitation moved in exactly the wrong direction, and is not helpful to our best policy. On the positive side at least we alone will not have to lead the fight against him alone; so far it appears Sarkozy's election truly will be a blessing to US.