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...Missed Opportunity? As Nancy Gibbs put it, the city of New York prevented Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from laying a wreath at ground zero because New Yorkers were revolted by "the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground" [Oct. 8]. I do not want to discuss how many tyrants the U.S. has tolerated vs. how many it has fought. But wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have made...
...Missed Opportunity? As Nancy Gibbs put it, the city of new York prevented Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from laying a wreath at ground zero because New Yorkers were revolted by "the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground" [Oct. 8]. Wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have had on dogmatic, anti-Western Muslims? Maybe New Yorkers should have waved the flag of peace first and waited to see what might...
...Ahmadinejad, feted last month by Columbia University’s tough-talking but effectively spineless administrators, received glowing praise from campus commentators and editorialists the country over. Welcoming a vociferous enemy of the United States and, in the words of Columbia president Lee Bollinger, a “petty tyrant,” was a courageous and laudable reaffirmation of free speech and academic freedom...
...course, the two worlds can meet. Afghan Shah Muhammad Rais claimed that his portrayal as a domestic tyrant in the global best seller The Bookseller of Kabul by Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad exposed him to dishonor. So he did a very Western thing, suing Seierstad for defamation in Norway. Then he went one better: Rais now has a deal with a Norwegian publisher for a book of his own. A spot on Oprah has to be next...
...strutted and fretted plenty. He was snubbed first by the city of New York when he proposed laying a wreath at ground zero. No can do, police said; too big a security risk, which was rather delicately put, given how revolted New Yorkers were by the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground. Next came Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger, who managed to outrage just about everyone either for inviting Ahmadinejad to speak or for insulting him before he had a chance to. As it turned out, Bollinger's "vaccination" was unnecessary, since the Iranian...