Our universities are filled with professors of the Ward Churchill sort, as well as administrators who are just pleased as punch to give scholarships to Taliban spokesmen.
Happily, some students are born and raised with enough sense that even their teachers can’t knock it out of them. Columbia University student Chris Kulawik writes in the Columbia Spectator about the School of International and Public Affairs (my alma mater, I’m ashamed to say) holding a teleconference with Muammar Qaddafi to ask his views on democracy in the 21st century.
Chris writes that what his educators appear to have missed is that Qaddafi is
“a man with blood on his hands for the murder of all those aboard the Lockerbie Pan Am flight, a purported bankroller for Black September (among others terrorists groups), a Hamas supporter. The infamous deeds go on. Libya is on the same short list as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. While the country made ‘progress’ in renouncing non-conventional weapons, that just makes Qaddafi a victim of Bush policy, not moral enlightenment. If Columbia is gullible enough to host this farce, what’s next? Is Castro to speak on the right of dissidents? The Mullahs on religious tolerance? The Chinese premier on free speech in Tibet? With Columbia, you just don’t—actually, let me stop here. They still might expel me.”
If they do expel Chris, I’ll find a way to hire him here at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
His good column is here.