Posted on 09/22/2007 6:44:46 PM PDT by nwrep
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler made public yesterday correspondence rejecting, as president of Columbia University, a request made to him by a students' club to cancel the Dec. 12 lecture of Dr. Hans Luther, German Ambassador.
The request was made by the Columbia Social Problems Club, which contended: "Inviting the Nazi envoy to lecture on the foreign policy of his government and giving him an official reception means not only failing in our duty to oppose the Nazi onslaught, but signifies, if not open endorsement of the Nazi actions, atleast placing their principles on the same level with other viewpoints."
When we run out of fresh mistakes to make, we just recycle the old mistakes.
That is why learning history is so important. So that we can get it exactly wrong a second time. Maybe even wronger!
But....but...it’s okay for Im-a-nutjob to lecture there though?
Iran’s dictator is going to a love fest.
Hunter warns Columbia University
Cancel Invitation to Iranian President
September 22, 2007 Mackinac Island, MI...Congressman Duncan Hunter issued a statement this morning from Mackinac Island directed to Columbia University.
“To host the leader of Iran when he supports terrorists that are moving deadly roadside bombs across the Iraqi border to be used against American troops is a slap in the face for the entire 165,000 men and women in Iraq and to those that have served before them,” said Hunter.
“If President Lee Bollinger follows through with this hosting of the leader of Iran, I will move in Congress to cut off every single type of Federal Funding to Columbia University. If the left-wing leaders of academia will
not support our troops, they, in the very least, should not support our adversaries.”
“This event, following the slanderous action of MoveOn.org, depicting General Petraeus as “General Betray Us,” in the New York Times represents the emergence of the extreme left-wing in American politics.”
Concluding, “I think it is time for the Democrat party to denounce this fringe element in their party,” said Hunter.
Guy was a big loser and may not have had the best interests of the United States in mind.
Columbia seems to attract more than its fair share of second-rate school administrators.
Similar, but not as bad as the many Catholic colleges that have invited pro-abortion, baby-killing politicians and celebrities to be honored, or to speak. Wheeling Jesuit University, formerly Wheeling College, had Janet Reno, the baby-killing A.G. under the baby-killing Clinton, as Commencement Speaker in 2000, because the college’s president, Thomas Acker, SJ, and she had become buds. The college has never apologized for its endorsement of baby-killing.
“What’s not to appease?” says your garden variety liberal about a dictator. Has Aquavelvajad met with Jimma Cawta yet during this visit? Obama must have met with him. Leave no dictators behind.
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Seeing how welcoming and accepting this school is, it looks like a great place for Pastor Greg Laurie to hold a Harvest Crusade there.
http://www.harvest.org/crusades/
You're really confusing treaties. The Kellogg-Briand treaty supposedly outlawed war, but had nothing to do with naval forces.
The Naval Treaties were the Washington and London Naval treaties. Neither treaty that allowed Japan to build equal forces to the US. In some cases Congress refused to even authorize building up to the treaty limits, and of course Japan eventually in 1934 withdrew from the treaties.
And I have no idea what you're talking about regarding the Brits being "forced out of the Pacific." The British couldn't afford to compete in the worldwide naval race and couldn't keep strong forces in the Pacific in any event, because they didn't have enough forces and their priority was the North Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Bump for publicity
Who will they invite next? Osama?
Oh I’m sure all the Democratic hopefuls will pass through there.
Oh I’m sure all the Democratic Presidential hopefuls will pass through there.
The Kellogg-Briand abomination grew out of the initiatives established in the Naval Treaty before it ~ sponsored by the same bunch of naive Progressives.
My point concerned the poisonous ideas of the Progressives, not the secquence of the treaties they sponsored.
But Duncan Hunter surely knows that the extreme left took over the democrat party almost 40 years ago -- the nomination of McGovern in 1972 is proof of that. That's what Howard Dean and Hillary and Teddy are, the extreme left that is now the majority in that party.
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