When I'm Right, I'm Right: Ahmadinejad "Praised in Iran for Entering Lion's Den"

I hate people who say "See I told you so!" However:

See, I told you so!

Found this Reuters news release on Yahoo.com News this morning:

Ahmadinejad lauded in Iran for "Lion's Den" visit

By Fredrik Dahl
31 minutes ago

TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have faced ridicule in the United States by suggesting there were no homosexuals in Iran, but he won praise at home on Wednesday for taking his country's case to "the Lion's Den."

Generally, politicians and media in the Islamic Republic -- even some who have previously criticized the president -- described Ahmadinejad's visit to New York as a triumph and denounced the university president who called him "a petty and cruel dictator."

But one pro-reform newspaper said that, although the president told his U.S. audience he respected academics, that was not always how it seemed at home.

Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West, traveled to the United States at a time of escalating tension between the two foes over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and the war in Iraq.

The president spoke at Columbia University on Monday and on Tuesday addressed the U.N. General Assembly, where he told world leaders the issue of Iran's nuclear ambitions was "closed" and that military threats and sanctions had failed.

"By fearlessly and courageously walking into the 'Lion's Den' ... he is sure to become even more of a hero in the Arab-Muslim street than before," the daily Iran News wrote.

Sometimes I'm so accurate it's frightening.

Not really, as I stated yesterday, anyone with half a brain (I guess that lets out all you Liberals) could have seen this coming.

This is the perfect example of why the opinions of our Ivory Towered "Intellectuals" in their prestigious universities should have absolutely no voice in how our nation, our economy and our diplomacy are run. By living and working in their isolated, insulated surroundings, into which the realities of the outside world rarely intrude, their view of the outside world becomes skewed and what sounds great intellectually when discussed among their peers in their little enclaves of idealistic fantasy proves over and over again to be utopian, naive and dangerous.

They are trapped forever in the Never, Never Land of sophomoric ideals and naive, shallow concepts. Their absurd assumption that "as academics, they should allow all ideas [except those of Conservative American politics] to be given an equal stage on which they can be presented, discussed, and evaluated" and their complete lack of foresight as to the propaganda value such a prestigious ivitation provides to a despot such as Ahmadinejad is jarring in its naiveté.

There is a reason that they are called Ivory Towered Intellectuals. The repercussions of this poorly thought out invitation to this caricature of a world leader to be given an academic stage from which to present his propaganda have yet to have been realized. The fact that so many at Columbia chose to applaud Ahmadinejad's performance illustrates just how foolish and poorly served the students of these so called bastions of higher education are.

One is forced to ask how shallow does one's thought processes have to be for them to actually believe the words of a man on who's hands the blood of thousands rests. How much irrational hatred of your own nation does it require for one to take the word of a sponsor of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists and the man responsible for the deaths of so many of our brave troops in Iraq over the words of your own democratically elected government?

That is the problem with these so-called "members of academia." They are so divorced from reality that the absurd becomes reasonable and the unthinkable becomes desirable.

The motives behind Columbia University's President Bollinger's remarks are transparent. On the heels of the criticism he and his university received for allowing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this forum, he was attempting with little real success to deflect criticism from himself and his faculty's poorly thought out choice to make this invitation.

Once again we are given a glimpse into the world of academia and the narrow, shallow thought processes (if they can be called that) which occur in their insular communities.

Ahmadinejad has now "bearded the Lion" in his own den, as far as his political partner are concerned and has been given prestige and power far beyond his merit (kind of remeniscent of Hillary in her run for the White House).

For those keeping score:

The winners in this are the oppressive government of Iran, the terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and of course, Ahmadinejad.

The losers in all of this are the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the coalition of the willing, the American people, our war against the Global Islamic Jihad, and ultimately, Columbia University.

Remember, it was the Ivory Towered Intellectuals who pressed so hard for the Marxist Revolution in Russia. I was also they who were the first to be executed and persecuted once the revolution succeeded. This is fact. This is what history tells us, yet for those who live in that Never, Never Land; those facts have failed to penetrate the arrogance such an isolated enclave of likeminded individuals engenders.

By the way I feel the need to point out that it is these same "broadminded academicians" who so resolutely object to the presence of the ROTC. Truly these are people who believe in the free expression and exchange of ideas (as long as they don't involve Conservatives, the military, or those who voluntarily seek to help maintain the integrity of our borders-the Minute Men).

Liberals truly deserve their proper label of illiberals rather than the euphemism of "progressives."

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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