 clipped from www.powerlineblog.comIn his plea to the Yale Political Union not to host a Commuist Party functionary in 1963, Williiam Buckley observed of those such as Ahmadinejad:Fight him, fight the tyrants everywhere, but do not ask them to your quarters, merely to spit on them, and do not ask them to your quarters if you cannot spit on them. To do the one is to ambush a human being as one migjht a rabid dog; to do the other is to ambush oneself, to force onself, in disregard of those who have died trying to make the point, to break faith with humanity.In inviting Ahmadinejad to its quarters as an honored guest, today Columbia broke faith with America and, in Buckley's terms, with humanity. |
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