The Larry Kane Report

What a country! President Ahmadinejad will be speaking at Columbia University. While his nation’s university dissidents are quietly disappearing, the Iranian hate-monger and Holocaust denier is feted by one of this nation’s great institutions of learning. A serious saber-rattler, the Iran leader has done more than perhaps anyone in recent memory, with the possible exception of his own Mullahs, to spread hatred around the globe,

While he is visiting the country, perhaps its wise to do a net search on his name, and read his pronouncements. If you’re a student of history, perhaps you’ll notice the similarity in his words and their direct relation to the rhetoric that began the ill-fated Hitler regime in the early 1930’s. Or you may want to comprehend how dangerous words are.

I know: you already fear this. Whatever you fear about Iran, do not underestimate the danger of the verbiage as well as the military might. Iranians themselves seem to want more creativity and freedom, but free people are dangerous to the likes of Ahmadinejad, the Venezuelan oilman Hugo Chavez and the hemisphere’s greatest mass murderer, Fidel Castro.

So, it is true: only in America could his type of visit happen. Imagine Adolf Hitler visiting America in 1934 and being invited to speak at Penn or Columbia.

Here’s my point: although we have made grave mistakes in Iraq, we are still a nation filled with people who are more interested in pop culture than they are in the true nature of the world. As George Will recently communicated in an incredible Newsweek column, we are interested more in ostracizing people who make public errors (like the beauty queen who couldn’t understand geography), and denigrating those who are not like us, than we are in understanding the dangers facing us.

New York City officials have urged Columbia to withdraw its invitation to let the man speak.

I say, let him speak, even though it hardly embellishes Columbia’s reputation.

But as he does, make no mistake. There is a killer among us.