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France AKA Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys, Show Signs of Survival Instinct

Another reason to be relieved that Jacques Chirac is gone and conservative Sarkozy now sits in his place. Iran, the EU and the UN can't be too happy about it, though.

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Columbia's Ahmadinejad Invitation

So Lee Bollinger, invited the Islamo-fascist Ahmadinejad, to speak at Columbia University. The Iranian pip-squeak shows up to give his speech a couple days ago, and Bollinger harshly scolds him for being the murderous dictatorial tyrant that Ahmadinejad is.

Dean Barnett has a point, that Bollinger is to be applauded for looking evil in the eye and calling it out, but that Columbia should have never have invited the jerk in the first place.

John Podhoretz also makes a good point when he writes that Bollinger should not have invited Ahmadinejad to speak, and then use this as an opportunity to (metaphorically) pin him to the wall.

There is a larger point to be made here, I think. Doesn't all of this seem/feel awfully contrived? Regardless of the particulars in this case, Ahmadinejad, Bollinger and Columbia University got tons and tons of publicity and media love this week. All kinds of attention from conservative bloggers, talk radio, Free Republic, Rush Limbaugh, and on and on. And isn't this the real object of Columbia and Ahmadinejad's exercise? How many web pages were generated this week that focused their text, photos and videos on the Iranian Little Man, Bollinger and Columbia? The answer, obviously, is tons and tons of web pages. And all of these web pages are linked to and from each other, creating an internet web that extends from hither and yon - all of them generating serious tonnage in Google's search engine rankings and revenue for Google Adsense.

The moral of my little rant: it's really Google that runs the world.

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Columbia University, 1933

Bollinger, the President of Columbia University, isn't the first president of the school to invite a fascist to speak. Nicholas Butler, the president in 1933 invited Hitler's ambassador to speak there.

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Columbia University President Pretends to Play Tough to Ahmajinedad

After disgracing Columbia University, the president of the school, Lee Bollinger, tried to recover his reputation by speaking truth to Islamic radical/jihadist power.

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The Captain Live Blogged President Bush's UN Speech

President Bush's UN speech today was good, but Ed Morrissey thinks it could have been so much better:

The second half of the speech turned into a succession of promises for more American spending on UN priorities. It almost sounded like a campaign speech for the UNGA presidency. Bush committed $30 billion to fight AIDS, increased funds to fight malaria, and promises of more resources to fight poverty and famine. He never mentioned the primary cause for both: the corrupt and dictatorial political systems in nations that suffer from them. Bush never called for political reform in places like Zimbabwe as a means to lift the standard of living, and even his calls for UN reform were brief and nebulous.

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John Bolton: Ahmadinejad Has Gotten Exactly What He Wanted

John Bolton said on Fox News:

Ahmadinejad “got exactly what he wanted out of this.” He played the crowd like a violin. He seemed to get a decent level of applause after every answer. I suspect we will not have to look far for comments in the vein of “he sounded quite reasonable.”

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Kagan: The Surge Is Succeeding

If we win in Iraq, what will the drive-by media (MSM) say then?

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Every American Should Watch Obsession, the Movie - UPDATED

I just watched for free, via an internet video stream (see update below, as the video has been pulled from Google Video), the movie, Obsession, Radical Islam's War Against the West. This is a powerful documentary that every American should see. Please send the link to the movie to everyone that you know. The movie contains:

• Hitler meeting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during World War II
• Video from an Arab TV station portraying stories of Jewish blood libel
• Interviews by Steve Emerson and Daniel Pipes among others

I have put a permanent link to Obsession, Radical Islam's War Against the West, in the upper right column of this blog.

Michael Medved wrote about this film:

"Obsession" is one of the most powerful, expertly crafted and undeniably important films I've seen this year. This courageous, utterly gripping expose' deserves the attention of every American -- and merits serious consideration for the Academy Award for Best Feature Length Documentary."

As someone I know said:

This is a documentary we all need to watch.  The footage in this film will BLOW YOUR MIND!!!!  WAKE UP AMERICA...WE'RE IN THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES, in case you hadn't noticed.

Again, please watch this movie and send the link to the film to everyone you know.

 

UPDATED 9/20/2006: The video stream posted above of the movie, Obsession, was pulled from the internet today (I think). I have sent a message to Obsession, the Movie people to ask what their policy is where internet streaming of their movie is concerned.

Meanwhile, I've purchased a DVD copy of the film from their website.

UPDATED 9/21/2006: The excellent docu-drama from ABC, Path to 9-11, is available online at the ABC web site here.

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Preemptive Strike on Iran: Debunking the Left's Arguments

Hugh Hewitt's excellent post this morning fisks the left's arguments against striking Iran to destroy their nuclear capabilities. Their weak arguments are:

1. The United States military cannot accomplish the mission.
2. Striking Iran will cause Iran to strike against our troops in Iraq.
3. An attack on Iran will unleash Iranian-sponsored terrorism around the world.
4. America's position in the world will crumble if we attack Iran.
5. There are other ways of deterring Iran's nuclear program.

Mr. Hewitt also asks for any email messages from military experts with supporting or opposing views.

Read the whole thing.

Technorati tags: 9-11, Iran, Nukes, Israel, Terrorism, Liberals, Military

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Oil for Food, Volcker's Final Report Condemns Kofi and UN

The Blemont Club has the links to Volcker's final report.

Instapundit's take:

EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE BUT NO ONE IS TO BLAME

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