Columbia University Dean would invite Hitler to speak.

Columbia University's Dean John Coatsworth says that if Hitler were around he'd certainly invite him to Columbia University for some "vigorous debate and questioning" by University students and faculty. Oh, I'll bet that will change the murderous ambitions of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! As if subjecting him to the tedious bloviations of academic gasbagery would accomplish anything! The fundamental flaw of liberalism is that it refuses to acknowledge the existence of evil. In their view Hitler or his current successor the President of Iran can simply be "reasoned with" and debated to the point where the tyrant will see the error of his ways through a combination of the liberal's enlightment and superior intellect. Their overinflated egos won't allow them to see that they are being played for fools by heinous fiends like Ahmadinejad. By hosting such a villan in this manner, they actually bestow upon Ahmadinejad a thin mantle of legitimacy on the world stage. A better generation knew that the way to defeat Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese militarists was by roundly defeating them not by pandering to their need for acclaim.