Basics

Unbelievable. The usual critics are all over the Columbia University/Ahmadinajad debacle. Columbia needs to be punished, according to the rightwing nuts! Take away any federal funds! (Ignoring freedom of speech) And not surprisingly, this kind of talk has given Mr. Ahmadinejad a boost in popularity at home in Iran. Exactly what we didn’t want. He was on a downhill slide, but now he is seen as some sort of hero because of the furor he raised. He was setting these people up. He should have been ignored! But no… the nutjobs had to pursue their own agenda. Were they blind and dumb? Don’t politicians have to learn basic psychology to do their job well? Or, maybe I have it all wrong… the politicians are using psychology; playing to the voters, as this is what the voters expect; jingoism at its finest.