Letters to the Editor
mihirsharma
Published Letters: 1
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Well...
[Read the article: My questions for President Ahmadinejad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..that's frankly quite rude. There are some excellent points in there, but it looks like Bollinger is so terrified of the bad press he's got for agreeing to get Ahmadinejad to speak anyway, that he has chosen to swing too far the other way to prove he's not a traitor of some sort. If this is the sort of discourse that such fora are expected to provide, perhaps there's no point to inviting a world leader at all. I'm not Iranian, and have no sympathy for Ahmadinejad, but I cringe to imagine the feelings of an Iranian with no sympathy for Ahmadinejad witnessing this sort of treatment of their elected president while a guest at a distinguished institution.
The questions themselves are problematic in their own way; does anybody else notice that the section on Petraeus' allegations about Iran does not ask for a clarification, but chooses to assume that Petraues is correct? Dishonest framing; but then Bollinger's really just a lawyer, not a real academic.