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To: jlallen who wrote (243049)	9/25/2007 11:31:40 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I didn't expect to see him get set up so blatantly, and he clearly wasn't prepared for it. The set up was effective at exposing him in an 'unflattering light' as you put it. His responses did appear unprepared and a bit daffy and undignified, not at all the substance of a speech he probably planned to deliver. He also wasn't prepared to receive accusatory, belittling, and provokative questions. I think he could have handled the questions about homosexuality, for example, much better if he had prepared a presentation on the subject. Same with other topics. Maybe he learned something maybe not. I figure in the future he will at least ask for a list of topics ahead of time. What was accomplished? He was seen in a stripped down and humiliating light, which would not have happened in a more sheltered forum. I wouldn't have hosted such a spectacle but it may have a humbling effect on him and other Iranians who don't imagine their ideas/views are critique-able. It is a very shielded culture and the official version of what happened at Columbia will read much differently in Iran than it does here. There are, however, Iranian Americans and Iranians all over the globe who will see, hear, and relate their impressions on the event to the folks back home...and the people 'back home' do care. Reclusive mono-cultures are a thing of the past.