[BRIEF NOTE] On Ahmedinejad's conference

[rfmcdonald]

The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust currently being held in Tehran is profoundly stupid. As has been made abundantly clear by the chorus of global condemnation and incredulity, the Iranian government's active sponsorship of this conference does very little for the reputation of Iran, and is going to do nothing to avert the clash of civilizations that everyone seems to accept as inevitable. This sort of thing is exactly what one would expect from an internet troll, not from the president of a country that aspires to Great Power status. Then again, standards have dropped recently.