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...introduction was mainly focused on the importance of free speech—which is all but absent in Iran—and a series of frank, pointed questions on human rights, Holocaust denial, Israel, Iran’s links to terrorist organizations, and the country’s nuclear program.Bollinger’s introduction did not make for a pointless discussion, as some critics claimed, nor was it mere “schoolyard name-calling,” to quote New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. Instead, by raising these important questions in such an attention-grabbing and strong...
...your heads out of the sand! We won't have to worry about global warming 50 years from now or, for that matter, five years from now if we keep ignoring the fact that nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists will make everything extinct...
...small but telling moment in the rolling overhyped crisis that is George W. Bush's so-called war on terrorism. The Iranian President's words had no practical, only symbolic, glob?al import. He has very little real power in Iran, none over foreign policy or the nuclear program. He has no more power than his predecessor, the failed reformer Mohammed Khatami, who came to be regarded in the West and in Iran as a well-dressed cipher. Indeed, Ahmadinejad has failed in the one area where he actually does have some authority: reforming the sluggish oligopoly that...
...laughter is freedom's only appropriate reaction. The bubble bursts. He denies not only the Holocaust but also homosexuality? Suddenly, it all becomes obvious: We are being played by extremists on both sides. To be sure, Iran does arm Hizballah, and it does have an active nuclear program that may or may not be proved to have hostile intent, and it is making trouble for the U.S. in Iraq, supplying weapons to our enemies. These are all problems to be addressed soberly and perhaps even, eventually, with multilateral force. But the neoconservative campaign to transform Ahmadinejad into Hitler or Stalin...
...Israel's September 6 bombing of Syria has further incited Hizballah. "They hit something, but, come on, it wasn't nuclear," a Hizballah source said, refuting rumors in the press the Israelis had hit some sort of North Korean nuclear shipment going to Syria...