It gets worse, of course. John Edwards said as well, he too would meet. . .sit with Ahmadinejad; and added something to the effect of . . .'if he was sure he was just not playing games with us. . .'
Think Bill Buckley said it best - if in l963. . .as noted/quote by Scott at Powerlineblog.com:
/In his plea to the Yale Political Union not to host a Commuist Party functionary in 1963, Williiam Buckley referred to those such as Ahmadinejad and enjoined his audience:
Fight him, fight the tyrants everywhere, but do not ask them to your quarters, merely to spit on them, and do not ask them to your quarters if you cannot spit on them. To do the one is to ambush a human being as one might a rabid dog; to do the other is to ambush oneself, to force onself, in disregard of those who have died trying to make the point, to break faith with humanity.
In inviting Ahmadinejad to its quarters as an honored guest, today Columbia broke faith with America and, in Buckley's terms, with humanity./end/
Agree. Despite the rhetoric; the applause; the laughter; and some lame and lofty attempts offered to rationalize or rather more, to intellectualize the irrational. . .in truth, only a wash of darkness moved through that auditorium.
I didn’t see those remarks by Scott at Powerline; I must take a closer look. That is a powerful quote and statement. I like many of Scott’s posts.
How did the leftists come to overtake our institutions of higher learning?
I don’t care what Bollinger said, Columbia today used the First Amendment against the very ones who fought, bled, suffered and died for its guarantee and for all of our freedoms.