Submitted by John Treat, Sep 27, 2007 07:08

The naive Bollinger loses, he resorted to petty name calling. It is one thing to ask tough questions of the Iranian president, but to just insult him shows Bollinger, Columbia and the American people as rude with no good result. The fact that Bollinger invited the Iranian president to Columbia show that he was naive about the effects in the Wester world and especially in the Muslim and Iranian world. This poor performance by Bollinger resulted in a boost to the Iranian president in his world; Bolinger should have know that. The Iranian president is smart enough that he got himself elected president; Bollinger obviously did not understand this. I would have expeced the president of Columbia University to smarter and better mannered than he showed himself to be. To be sure the Iranian president is a crusader for his country and his religion, which is very much at the expence of the rest of the world and deserves to be told so and ever stopped, but Bollinger made a poor attempt at that and should have know better that to invite the Iranian president to Columbia University to speak. What Columbia got that was positive was not worth the cost of the negative.

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