David

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October 1, 2007

What Ahmedinejad Reveals About Us

Last week, Iranian president and nutcase Mahmoud Ahmedinejad was allowed to enter the United States so as to speak to his fellow haters of the United States at the annual re-enactment of the cantina scene in "Star Wars" known as the United Nations General Assembly.

Along the way, he stopped off at another bastion of American disdain, Columbia University. And with the exception of his denial of the presence of homosexuals in Iran, he received thunderous applause from the ignorant, if not seditious, faculty and students thereof. (Maybe we should have convinced Columbia that Ahmedinejad was a conservative. Then they would have withdrawn the invitation in record time.)

Let's examine this a little more closely: A psychotic lunatic, who is trying to obtain nuclear weaponry and who was part of a gang of maniacal hoodlums that took American citizens hostage in Tehran in 1979, is not only able to waltz right into the country against whom he perpetrated such an atrocity some 28 years ago – and might well be plotting another much larger one now – he is in fact welcomed with open arms by a portion of her citizenry.

Instead of being arrested and punished in kind for the act of war he committed (and for which we have proof on film), or at absolute minimum, being told precisely where, when and how to shove his travel visa request, we just roll over and acquiesce. And then we wonder why terrorists like Osama Bin Laden think America is a paper tiger who runs scared at the first sign of difficulty. It's hard to conclude he's wrong when we can't even manage to scare up the nerve to challenge this evil Iranian twerp on our own soil.

At some point, you have to be willing to draw a line in the sand and stand up for your beliefs, or pretty soon there won't be anything left to stand up for. The United Nations runs America down at every opportunity, and we not only remain a member of this impotent, worthless and corrupt organization, but let them meet in our biggest city. (Cue Kevin Bacon in "Animal House" saying: "Thank you, sir, may I have another?")  If we are not going to withdraw from the U.N., the least we could do is make them take their crap to Geneva or The Hague. And we'd have some valuable new real estate available in Manhattan to boot. 

Ahmedinejad comes over here and thumbs his nose at us, and we don't even respond. Not toward him, and not even toward the university that gave him aid and comfort. Columbia should be an object of derision and shame, its donations dried up overnight for giving a stage to this wacko. Yet, if anything, its stock has probably risen amongst the breed of liberal that would already consider attending such a place of indoctrination.

This entire ridiculous episode reveals far more about us and the kind of nation we are and appear about to become than it does about Ahmedinejad. We clearly find it a great struggle to maintain the sort of moral resolve that made our grandparents the Greatest Generation. We can't even muster the words, much less actions, to shine the light of moral truth on a maniac and those blind bodies that would enable him.

We have forsaken, to quote the words of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, "firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." A nation that does this, which has fallen far enough to do this, is one that needs to wake up and find its soul before it is too late.

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