Columbia Prof Explains

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Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 8:09 am PDT • Views: 182

Richard W. Bulliet, professor of Middle Eastern history at Columbia University, explains: Why I Helped Invite Ahmadinejad to Columbia.

There are a lot of words and justifications here, but all you need to know is contained within one sentence:

The real question was: Could listening, could openness to debate, slow the drift toward war?

The anti-war agenda trumps everything.

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