As I surfed the Internet news this morning, I noted that all the blogs were a-twitter with the recent address of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to Columbia University. That is, the news-minded or politically-oriented blogs. Anyway, they’re seesawing between outrage at the invitation and irritation at the university president’s either better-late-than-never or too-little-too-late condemnatory introduction to the speech. Well, that’s the conservative take on it. Apparently the other side of the coin is that he shouldn’t have condemned Ahmadinejad at all? Oh, but the denial of the presence of homosexuals in Iran is a problem? Politics confuse me.
Personally, I suppose that keeping up the pretense of amicable relations with Iran is probably a regrettable necessity until such time as our government deems it appropriate to cut off all our diplomatic relations with that nation. Which may or may not ever happen. I would certainly be displeased should my own educational institution extend an invitation for him to speak, but then, did we really expect different from this particular university? As I recall, they’ve become well-known lately for booing conservatives off the stage and other actions like that. So it’s just not surprising that they’d do this.
I do hope that should it ever come down to a real war with Iran, even the “edgy” decision makers who chose to give Iran’s president a platform would support their own country, but I also suspect they might not. However, I’m still holding out hope that we can figure out a way to deal with Iran that doesn’t involve war. I’m not sure it’s possible, but I really want it to be so.
Posted by Kjirstin 
Posted by Kjirstin 
