Tea for Tyrant

It’s not entirely clear if Mad Mahmoud will be visiting Columbia University, where the school’s president is keenly interested in a spirited exchange of ideas with a delusional apocalypse-freak because he apparently believes that such conversations with nutters are actually productive and worht the time of a prestigious university. But, just in case it doesn’t go off as planned, John Podhoretz has imagined what the conversation might be like.

I’m just not seeing the value of hosting the views of a man who thinks it’s AOL to kill teenaged girls for defending themselves from rape or gay people for simply being gay. I definitely can’t remember the last time that a major American University openly welcomed the leader of a country that is killing American soldiers in an openly-declared war. I’m positive that had one of our schools extended an invitation to Emperor Hirohito or Benito Musollini right about 1942, the American public would have thrown a rod and that school’s President would have been quickly removed by the school’s governing board for being out of his freaking mind.

But these are different times and it’s quite in vogue to pander to our enemies as if using our inside voices against their full-throated death chants is actually going to quiet them and make them see reason. Islamists haven’t seen the calm waters of reason since about the 12th century and there’s absolutely no reason at all to think that they will now. Of course, the American left is chock-full of foolish ideas and has nothing but warm fuzzies for any world leader that’s not named George Bush. I’m just wondering why the rest of America – the ones who aren’t so blinded by political greed that they can still see the blood dripping from mad Mahmoud’s hands and the glint of madness in his eyes – tolerate their foolishness.

Updates after the jump.

UPDATE: It looks like Mad Mahmoud’s visit to Columbia is still on. Further, the New York Times editorial board has invited him for a posh reception in Manhattan. That doesn’t surprise me. They’ve been on the same side for a few years now.

Meanwhile, one of the products of Columbia’s mad educational skillz likens Mad Mahmoud’s visit to that of the founder of the Minutemen. Gosh, I hadn’t realized that the Minutemen were hanging little girls to stoning gay people to death or killing American soldeirs. Maybe this future super genius has been reading the wrong propaganda rags.

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