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December 13, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/12/13/getting_at_the_truth/

Getting at the Truth

[Boston Globe] Charles Fried - To even mildly educated people, Ahmadinejad's conference is like having a conference about whether the world might be flat after all. The real victims of this minor latter-day outrage are the Iranian people and rational discourse everywhere. Ahmadinejad tells us that his pursuit of advanced nuclear capabilities is for peaceful purposes only: power generation, medical applications, and not as part of a weapons program. Why would a rational person put faith in any assurance from a man so contemptuous of truth or even think there is any point in negotiating with him? There is such a thing as truth; that is why Holocaust deniers are fools or liars. The writer is a professor at Harvard Law School.

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