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You summarized the damage Bollinger and Columbia University have done.

Bollinger was SCHOOLED. Ahma sidestepped most all his criticism and made it his own forum. You cannot put an amateur in the ring w/ a guy like Ahma, he has no rules. They should have surprised Ahma with Gingrich or someone who can at least debate and not let that weasel weasel out of questions.

The chink in Ahma's armour was the "no homosexuals in Iran" statement. He obviously wasn't prepared for that. If you take away his game he will crumble just like mighty mike tyson.

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for the point about not being prepared. Did you see the video of John Stossel in the USSR that was up here at Redstate a week or so ago? The person being interviewed did the same thing. Pressed about poverty-stricken Russians, he simply said there was no poverty in Russia, with the same tone to his remark.

Mahmoud knew that question was coming. This was the answer he chose. To prove he didn't have to answer. To prove it was his forum.

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There are no homosexuals in Iran because they kill them.

a vote of the student body at Columbia to reinstate ROTC on campus, just said "no".
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him into saying what he all along has known is true but never wanted to say, because to do so means that he would have to accept the logical response, i.e. that we must wage war against a nation that is waging same against us or

admit cowardice by advocating appeasement.

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I have no doubt that he thinks he is doing the right thing, however he just doesn't understand who he is dealing with. If he thinks this was anything but a PR coup for Ahmadinejad he is fooling himself, he fooled himself frankly into believing that this would do anything but raise this guy's profile at the exact moment that he was starting to be quite isolated. Here is how I saw it...

http://proprietornation.blogspot.com/2007/09/mahmouds-whirlwind-tour-of-...

You have to understand who you are dealing with and Ahmadinejad is a sociopath. He is only going to manipulate this to his advantage the way he always manipulates everything. Do you really think it hurts his public standing that Bollinger questioned him on civil rights, the Holocaust, etc. He wasn't performing for our media or the Western media in general. He was performing for the Middle East media, and they won't spin it as being called out, but rather standing up to the mean, mean Americans and showing them who is boss. His standing in the Middle East just improved exponentially thanks to the useful idiot Lee Bollinger.

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his lack of judgement running a public institution. He needs to step down, now, or be forced out by the NYS legislature. The legislature can take away state funding and/or kill their expansion plans in Harlem.
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Name your top three [sociopaths-as-politicians]. Next post, please.

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LBJ--violent outbursts, no guilt for physical attacks on other legislators.
GWB--again, violence, more evidence for nonconformist(see one below)
Nixon--enemies list, lying to America [okay, so this may not have been the worst thing wrong with nixon. he deserves a place here, still]

dsmiv criteria:
1. failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
2. deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
3. impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
5. reckless disregard for safety of self or others
6. consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain steady work or honor financial obligations
7. lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another

I am not claiming to be a psychologist, but I can read.

Bye.

Blam*.

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*Feel free to post on some other site about how I'm a psychopath, too. I'm sure that I'll eventually egoogle it. "Egogoogle?" I'm sure there's a word for the practice.

It seems your point is that "from inside the Muslim Mind" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a sympathetic figure, more so than Lee Bolinger.

There certainly appear to be non-Muslims in America who are also sympathetic to the Iranian president's views. Many of his foreign policy positions can be found in Democrat stump speeches, lefty blogs, Democracy Now and so on. And I suppose that his emphasis on piety appeals to a certain segment of Conservatives.

There is a very large portion of us that have absolutely no sympathy for this Iranian though.

This makes for a significant conflict. Since resolution is your expertise, what's to be done? Can you and I resolve our conflict with will and effort?

that was why Nixon was parading around a country that was in reality like a powerkeg.

That was how America dismissed the intel saying that Sadaam did not have WMDs (even though it came from a more credible source).

It's always a danger in people who think alike, to exclude those who think differently.

which is why Democrats should never, ever be trusted with national security.
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