Here’s an illuminating story out of Iran. It seems the country’s nuclear-bomb-building, terrorist-supporting, Holocaust denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is defending Iran’s interior minister, Ali Kordan, for faking a doctoral diploma from Oxford University. As a dispatch of the Associated Press put it, Mr. Ahmadinejad has been “dismissing degrees in general as ‘torn paper’ not necessary for serving the people.” On that point he could check with Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and Harry Truman, none of whom are college graduates. But there’s a distinction to be made between forthrightly deciding to leave college or to never go in the first place, on the one hand, and falsely claiming an advanced degree one does not possess, on the other hand.