As Low As Our Enemies

I thought that Byron Williams at HuffPo here captured how I feel also about the recent visit of Iranian president Mahmoud AhMADinejad to Columbia University.

I really don’t understand the point of university president Lee Bollinger’s insult-peppered introduction. It should be clear to anyone with an IQ greater than that of a flea who has read the words and witnessed the actions of this lunatic that AhMADinejad is a demonstrably repellent individual (evidenced by this prior post). There was no need for Bollinger to try and put an exclamation point on that (a point Williams made in his remark about trying to win “a urinating contest with a skunk”).

And I honestly can’t see why we even extended the invitation to him. It just gave AhMADinejad an excuse to hide his monstrous ideological perversions behind some toilet-paper-thin cover of intellectual curiosity. And Bollinger’s boneheaded antics just fed into the Iranian figurehead’s never-ending well of anti-western agit-prop (and anti-American in particular, of course).

AhMADinejad is particularly offensive because I believe his country has in some fashion contributed to the carnage in Iraq; personally, I think they trained the insurgents and provided material and financial support years ago when Bushco was still high-fiving itself for overthrowing Hussein, but I honestly believe they no longer need to provide such support now.

However, the fact that we did allow him to come here and spew his nonsense does say something about this country’s still-remaining respect for free speech (or, as that intellectual titan George W. Bush put it here)…

Bush said Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia “speaks volumes about really the greatness of America.”

Despite the typically fractured syntax, I think he stated the case well.

(How does the saying go – even a blind squirrel finds the nut sometimes?)