What has happened to Harvard University, that it would invite former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to speak - just one day before the fifth anniversary of 9/11 - to it of "The Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence."

Appalling. Unbelievable.

Kobayashi Maru writes:

...in case the incredulity has rendered you senseless as it did me: he will be lecturing us on ethics, tolerance and violence. Read that again if you didn't get it the first time.

I read it again. I still can't believe it. Harvard alumni should be red with embarassment, and should be putting the mighty pen and keyboard to heavy and appropriate use today.

Hugh Hewitt notes:

What a sick joke to play on the country; what an incredible collapse of judgment at Harvard and the State Department.

Ah yes, that good old State Department. You see, it stepped in to pick up the slack and provide the security after Masssachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney did the right thing and denied any security or VIP treatment to Khatami.