Columbia University received a fair share of criticism for hosting an event featuring Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger, nevertheless, made good on his promise to pull no punches with Ahmadinejad. Here’s how President ended his opening remarks:
“I am only a professor, who is also a university president, and today I feel all the weight of the modern civilized world yearning to express the revulsion at what you stand for. I only wish I could do better.”
Good for President Bollinger. Here’s the AP coverage: “Ahmadinejad Questions 9/11, Holocaust.”
(HT: Jeffrey Weiss)
If he had thrown a couple articular infinitives in there, it would have been perfect.
Hey, Denny, I really appreciate your site. Many thanks.
Here are a some other perspectives worth considering at National Review Online w.r.t. Ahmadinejad: 1, 2, and href=”http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDM5ZmU0ZThlYTJhYmNhMDcxOGQ1ZmU5YTQ0ODRlMzA=”>3.
Andy,
another perspective, besides Denny’s is to be found at National Review?
This is like saying someone is eclectic because they like country AND western.
I heard that ROTC and others have been blocked from coming to the campus. The whole situation has my stomach unsettled.
I am sure the Iranian government fed their citizens a much different spin on the whole affair. For Ahmadinejad this is another victory.