McCain Blasts Columbia for Ahmadinejad Appearance
John McCain piped up about the recent visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Columbia University. The Arizona senator blasted the school for allowing the foreign leader on campus, but not the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC).
Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger, who gave a scathing introduction to Ahmadinejad during his appearance at the university’s Manhattan campus Monday, has voted to not allow ROTC to return to Columbia as a campus institution. The reason, he has said, is because of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — the government’s policy toward the service of gays and lesbians in the military.
“To not allow the ROTC … to try to recruit or discuss issues with young men and women on their campus is just disgraceful,” McCain said.
It has often struck me as odd, and hypocritical, of Republicans that claim the U.S. is at war for freedom and the liberties that we hold so dear, and then seek to stifle speech of political opponents, foreign and domestic.
Ahmadinejad’s appearance provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and added value, in calling out the Iranian president’s idiotic statements of the last several years to his face, rather than through the newspapers and from the safe confines of television studios.
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