Just Like There Weren't Any Jews in Poland

I watched some of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's address at Columbia University on TV before having to run off to class. I managed to catch some of his crazy -- I was partiucularly charmed by how American scientists are apparently inferior because they do not accept the greater reality of the Almighty as scientific fact -- but had to leave before he dropped this whopper:

"In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you that we have it."

Right. On account of you're killing them all.

The outrageously stupid statement was apparently the only moment in Ahmadinejad's speech met by boos and derisive laughter from the crowd. And deservedly so.

I may not be the biggest fan of our current Iran policy, but that doesn't even come close to making me a fan of Ahmadinejad.

Should I be considered naive for hoping that the Iran situation somehow gets resolved peacefully?