Whether or not you think Iran should be bombed into the Stone Age, you should be glad that their President is willing to engage in a dialogue. Communication is supposed to be important, but whatever. Its probably way healthier to think the other person is evil and completely wrong.
So while the news was debating free speech, whether or not Columbia University should have hosted the President of Iran was discussed. But don't worry, aparently the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, is a dick. I wish I could find a nice euphemism, but, um, I can't.
President Bollinger, who invited Ahmadinejad, gave these nice introductory comments.
"Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator."
"You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated," Bollinger told Ahmadinejad about the leader's Holocaust denial. "Will you cease this outrage?"
Um, dude, you invited him. But whatever. Lets start off this dialogue between two countries that could potentially go to war together, by insulting the other nation's leader. What a jerk. (Not the Holocaust denier, the guy who invited the Holocaust denier.)
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