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Originally posted by sgtclub
It has nothing to do with morals, and I understand the argument of letting him hang himself. But unfortunately the Arab world does not live by the same belief system that we do, and I fear that the appearance will be used to prop him up and legitimize him in the Arab world in the same way that allowing him to visit the towers would have.
Were you in favor of allowing him to visit the towers?
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He's already speaking to the General Assembly at the UN -- I doubt that adding Columbia University would add to his prestige in the Arab or Persian or Islamic world. (Whether this is a good idea for Columbia, in light of its own issues with free speech and New York politics, is a different issue.)
And I would let anyone go to Ground Zero to lay a wreath. As for having an Iranian president do the honors, I read somewhere that there were somber candlelit vigils in Iran after 9/11, unlike Penske's cheering Palestinians.
No one should be allowed to give speeches there.
