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Submitted by Amy De Rosa, Sep 25, 2007 12:00

Lee Bollinger is flip-flopping in his own post-modern dilemma. Since for someone like him there is no truth, no good and no evil in the world, just different viewpoints and perspectives, Bollinger thinks that an Ahmadinejad is deserving of an invitation to a university in the midst of the very Western civilization he seeks to destroy.

But, then, given the floor, Bollinger emerges as a denouncer of the evils perpetrated by Ahmadinejad's Iran. The Columbia president is a crusader for human rights and even puts in a good word for American troops! He champions Columbia as a 'home' for holocaust survivors and a 'world center ' of Jewish studies!

Your editorial suggests watching to see how Bollinger will now deal with his own left-leaning faculty, his university's anti-Israel Middle Eastern studies program and his university's anti-military students and faculty. A bit naive. Bollinger had his moment yesterday, and he'll deal with these groups as he has dealt with them all along. To do otherwise would require him to question himself and the logic and rightness of his beliefs. Anyway, if he were to continue to speak out, he might lose his job just as Lawrence Summers at Harvard lost his. Then where would Lee Bollinger be!

What a sad sack he is, and with a bad hair cut to boot.

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"Mr. Bollinger spoke to some of the elements in which Jewish particularity is engaged ... " Tell me more about this... [MORE]	PeaceThroughJustice	Sep 27, 2007 18:54
Academics want to get rid of objectivity because it is "white male patriarchal." Women are subjective and emotional, to them--which... [MORE]	Paul Cameron	Sep 26, 2007 07:57
It occures to me after reading this article that Ahmadinejad's presense and disguised-diatribe-filled dribble along with Columbia University's divorced-from-reality, Leftist... [MORE]	jennifer solis	Sep 25, 2007 17:12
The one deathly fallacy in your editorial is that the proceedings will be broadcast back home. Given the experience and... [MORE]	Thomas Abella	Sep 25, 2007 16:45
"The war the Arabs are waging against Israel"... and if the opposite wasn't, in some part, also true? [MORE]	galamiel	Sep 25, 2007 15:57
Thank you for for rightly using this editorial to provide a "teaching moment" to as many as will receive it.... [MORE]	Brad Thomas	Sep 25, 2007 12:26
Lee Bollinger is flip-flopping in his own post-modern dilemma. Since for someone like him there is no truth, no good...	Amy De Rosa	Sep 25, 2007 12:00
My understanding is that Columbia doesn't allow ROTC or military recruiters to speak on campus because of the military's ban... [MORE]	Richard	Sep 25, 2007 10:28
Yes, the question is ,what did Mr. Bollinger learn? With his inalienable right of free speech, why didn't he stress... [MORE]	Carolyn	Sep 25, 2007 05:04
I don't think anyone could have said it better than Carolyn. It is way past the time, that Americans should... [MORE]	Gary	Sep 25, 2007 16:17

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