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Not the first time a nut job got a university platform to speak from.  In fact, didn’t Columbia U give some nazi VIP a platform in 1933?

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T-Rex
Did you hear what the pres of Columbia introduced Ahmahbadassjihadi as? “a petty and cruel dictator” “brazen and uneducated”. Amabadass said there wuz no homos in Iran. That made me think how much r108, Neiman, and the other homophobes would enjoy it there. It also made me wonder if he told Columbia U what a bunch of sheepfuckers there are in Iran. I think the holocaust is pretty much undeniable. Kinda like the a-bomb made STR undeniable, 6 million someodd people makes the holocaust undeniable. The moral of the holocaust and Amabadass denying the holocaust is that dictators who ARE TOO NATIONALISTIC, HAVE A LOT OF POWER AND GUNS, AND SUPPORT ONE SET OF FRAUDULENT FACTS are effing dangerous. Homos are not evil (and they exist in Iran… lots of recent homo-critical hypocrites come to mind!!!) and the holocaust totally did happen. People still remember it and they are still out there talking and remembering… for a little while longer. Lots of brilliant people were killed and everyone knows damn well it happened. People generally know, at least 5 years after the fact or more, what’s going on.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Gene. Your contention that Amabadass got anything out of this relies on a strict realist interpretation of the Iranian state propaganda. If you believe that… okay. You do believe other stuff I don’t. But if you are pretending to believe it to get in a scolding… its pretty transparent.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

I agree with those who would say that giving Ahmadinejihad (thanks zsa) a platform on our soil sends a bit of confusion to the Iranian people.  We say we want freedom for them then allow this guy to spew his propoganda on our soil.  He gets to say how peace loving he is and how well Iranian women are treated.  This sort of behavior on our part has got to have a discouraging impact on Iranians who dream of peace and liberty for themselves.

How about we give OBL a spot to speak at the next presidential inauguration?  Wouldn’t that show the very logical world of Islam how serious we are about free speech?

...No.  It would show that we are weak and easily manipulated, and it would (and will) echo throughout the world.  Especially when people would applaud him.

The US used to kick ass.  Now we kiss ass.  This troop doesn’t want anything to do with the latter.

“Hope is not a method.” - Common Military Saying

The above is a statement of pro activity.  If any Soldier were to tell me that he hoped what he was briefing was going to come to fruition, that would be unacceptable.  We in the Army do not have the luxury to ‘hope’ that things will end well.  Hope will get us killed.  Instead, we must plan and take action.  Hope is not a method.

As a leader I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers have the proper training.  I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers have the proper logistical supplies.  I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers will survive the next mission.  Hope is not a method; I live in the real world.

What Follows is what the Iranian Press (which the world’s press will quote as gospel) said about Ah-bin-a-nut-job’s appearance at Columbia yesterday:

I’m having trouble finding the world’s press quoting the Offical Iranian press as gospel. Can someone please help me out?

"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”

Irving Kristol

I’m with Rob and I can’t ignore the introduction he was given at Columbia either. Some say it was improper to invite him and then say something like that, but I think it is merely the institutions he was hoping to exploit telling him they see through any potential rouses and hope he won’t treat the invite as an exercise in hopelessly transparent propaganda. Alas, the introduction had an eerie forshadowing quality. Perhaps they introduced him with the implied thesis of his speach; he’s an ass.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

First, mr Arbuckle, I would like to thank you for the direct response. 

As to the pres of CU’s intro (and some of his other remarks later, which a lot of the right wing press are ignoring) I still have to wonder how much was really what he wanted to say and how much was spin and damage control (controlling damage to himself, not to our nation). Still, he did say it, and that is better than not saying anything at all. 

Unfortunately, while the audience jeered him for his remarks about gays, they cheered him for his remarks about Palestine, which shows a remarkable naivety of history.  This, and the propaganda bit WILL serve to weaken our position in the world.  Despite what we might hope about people knowing the difference, many people belive the propaganda.

As for introducing him like that, I wonder if it would have been more effective to allow him to speak first, and then begin showing what a nut job he is afterwards. (And I think Sean Hannity would have been a good invite for that purpose)

BTW, I like the way you think.  I have been honing my own thinking and writing skills over at CombatEffective.us, but things are kind of slow over there right now.

I also write on http://www.combateffective.us
Where dissent is encouraged - But the amoral
liberal collective appeasement mindset is not