[fweingart]

The world media will take it upon themselves to broadcast his message.

And all this comes from the left-leaning Columbia president and administration.

[ketsu]

The world media will take it upon themselves to broadcast his message.

And all this comes from the left-leaning Columbia president and administration.

This reaction is silly. The easiest way to get rid of a crackpot like our Iranian friend is to be nice to him. No need for denunciations, let him *hang* himself don't let him play the victim.

He's actually quite smart, he knew he would win either way. If columbia rejected him he could claim his own academic repression was justified to the rest of the Arab world(you think he cares about American opinion?). By calling him names he actually gets *stronger* because he can play the victim back in lebanon and gaza.

He's setting himself up as the post Saddam arab patriot heroically opposing the imperialist US. All these histrionics make his job easy. They give him credibility because it establishes him as a credible threat when the rest of the Arab world are either lapdogs(Egypt, Jordan, Saudi, Iraq) or pathetic(Syria, Lebanon).

[I see my hands]

To: Lee C. Bollinger

Seek swift redemption.

[Bob Mc]

"Such a statement suggests that the university does not feel any obligation to our nation at war, but is somehow disconnected and removed from the military and psychological warfare unleashed against us."

Suggests?

Ha!

Left leaning education institutions began disconnecting themselves from all things military back in the 60's.

Kind of late to the party if the author just now realizes this.

[weegee]

He was addressing the world and Columbia knew this. They removed all insignias from their podium. They don’t want to be connected with this guy later.

Kind of the opposite of how NBC was “horrified” to be the exclusive owner of the Virginia Tech shooter’s media kit but they still branded everything with NBC logos before turning it over.

[G8 Diplomat]

This is like inviting Emeperor Tojo to speak to us after Pearl Harbor. These people have no brains.

I bet if Bush wanted to speak at Columbia the uni prez wouldn’t let him...