Michelle Malkin had an insightful chat with a Columbia graduate about Ahmadinejad’s tirade at Columbia. Typical of so many others, she was

steeped in the Ivy League haze of non-judgment. She was upset and embarrassed – not by Columbia president Lee Bollinger’s bone-headed decision to legitimize Ahmadinejad at its World Leaders Forum. No, she was mortified that Bollinger had delivered his face-saving introduction challenging Ahmadinejad.With childlike naiveté, this Columbia alum told me: “I’m frightened by the polarity.” Which about sums up the majority view of academia and the Ahmadinejad excusers on the Left.

Such Americans, says Malkin “are more afraid of standing up and calling out evil than losing the West, their country and their own lives to it.