Can you think of a wider one than exists between the leadership of our elite colleges and universities and the military culture, as evidenced by the current controversy over the appearance of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran at Columbia University? Columbia’s President Lee Bollinger just doesn’t get it. He would like us to believe that the nominal leader of a country that has already committed acts of war against the U. S., who denies the very underpinning of the concept of truth on which our civilization is based, who has openly called for the elimination of this country and our leading ally in his region, and who is the 21st century equivalent of Adolf Hitler in about 1936 can be trusted with responsible dialogue befitting the concepts of academic freedom and open inquiry in pursuit of the truth. And, incidentally, how is it that Bollinger can provide a platform for Ahmadinejad but not for a ROTC program at Columbia?
