Columbia and the Ayatollah's Mouthpiece

Ahmedinajad and his political family were described to me by an Iranian expatriate as pimps who will do anything for more power,money, etc. Ahmedinajad is also well known for his oppression of women and basic civil rights. He is a two-faced populist, giving one face to hard-right extremists in his country,and quite another to the incredibly gullible people here in the US. Giving this lowlife a basically open forum is giving him exactly what he wants and is enabling what is (at best) a severely irresponsible country in the mid-east to continue its efforts against peace. The ARAB countries view Iran as a threat-if they are worried, we definitely should be. Things are unfortunately heating up again in the mid-east; an all out war is definitely a possibility. Israel's bombing of the Syrian nuclear site, America and England sending planes and other weapons to Israel and supposedly nuetral/friendly arab regimes. The only way I could justify Columbia's decision is to invite someone like Prince Bandar and another high-ranking Arab official to question Ahmedinajad. President Lee Bollinger is just not cut out for this position, and this whole thing just smells very bad. Ahmedinajad will probably just do his little two step. To quote Deborah Lipstadt, author of "Denying the Holocaust"
" What is wrong, I am repeatedly asked, with hearing a different perspective?...This is precisely the deniers' goal: They aim to confuse the matter by making it appear as if they are engaged in a genuine scholarly effort when , of course, they are not."
Dr. Lipstadt in this quote is explaining the reason she will not debate Holocaust deniers. She refuses to grant any sort of legitimacy to the deniers' lies and avoidance of crucial evidence in place of what they want to espouse. Ahmedinajad, as a Holocaust denier, understands the power of being granted recognition by scholars. Does Columbia's President truly understand this? I doubt it!