'Jacket's Visit

Morton Kondracke and Juan Williams can't understand what the problem is with Iranian President Ahmadinnerjacket speaking at Columbia University this coming Monday, the 24th, confirmed by CU President Bollinger. Has there been even one peep from a CU trustee? A faculty member? A donor? An alumni?

Both Williams and Kondracke believe 'Jacket should be heard. That he should be given the forum.

I disagree -- just a bit, eh?

He was finally denied access to Ground Zero in New York -- but certainly not because Mayor Bloomberg was doing his job. For Christ's sake, Bloomberg invited the man. And let his Police Commissioner take the heat for the over-riding denial -- in pussified terms of "security." When braced on the fact, Bloomberg and his office remain stultifyingly silent.

There might be a few things Columbia should consider prior to hosting 'Jacket:

-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the head of a state sponsor of terror clearly supplying weapons and expertise to kill and wound Americans in Iraq.

-- He has supplied Hezbollah with the rockets used to wage indiscriminate war against the civilians of Israel last year.

-- Iran has a long record of organizing and directing bloody terrorist assaults around the globe, including the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.

-- Ahmadinejad stated in June of this year: "God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime," referring to Israel.

-- Back in 2005, Ahmadinejad loudly and publicly proclaimed that Israel "must be wiped out from the map of the world."

This is the urging of genocide, a violation of all the law of nations. A violation of UN strictures.

Yet he is welcomed with open arms by this same UN.

Rudy Giuliani, who removed Yassar Arafat from NYC's Lincoln Center in 1995 (a move, shockingly-enough, criticized by the Clinton Administration), said in re Admadinejad's impending visit:

Under no circumstances should the NYPD or any other American authority assist President Ahmadinejad in visiting Ground Zero. This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring Bin Laden’s son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. Assisting Ahmadinejad in touring Ground Zero – hallowed ground for all Americans – is outrageous."

Meanwhile, back at the Beltway, the Demorats and their sniveling syncophatic Moveon.org Lockstep Leftists are completely SILENT on this issue. Best not to stir the restive herds, they figure. And not without good reason, eh? This'll all blow over in time, eh? Because, after all, it has been proven time and again that the American electorate has precisely ZERO collective historical memory. Eh?

This UN venue, the potential Ground Zero venue, is about nothing more than PROPAGANDA. Not even necessarily propaganda on the world front; it is all about propaganda INSIDE IRAN and the portrayal of Ahmadinejad as a worldly individual willing to travel to the proverbial "belly of the beast" and exit unscathed.

Do we learn nothing of history? Do we have no concept of the vast power of propaganda?

The UN and even the US are offering themselves to this manipulative Islamist as nothing more than Useful Idiots.

BZ