The Right Response to Ahmadinejad

Give him a mic, let him make a fool of himself, laugh him off stage. Watching Columbia students literally start giggling when he tried to argue there are no homosexuals in Iran was a priceless moment — but getting him in a high-profile position in front of international cameras where he tried to argue that there were no homosexuals in Iran is a major diplomatic coup.

When powerful men with maniacal views get put in forums where they’ll be aggressively challenged, we win. Ahmadinejad got rolled by Columbia, and I have to think the ranks of “leftists” who romantically associate his aggressive anti-Americanism with some sort of socialist/progressive agenda thinned considerably while watching him speak.