Left-leaning members of the organized Iranian-American community were right to cry foul in response to renewed congressional efforts to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq from the U.S. terror list, but wrong to turn to an organization often accused of serving as an unofficial lobby for the Islamic republic to spearhead their campaign.
The Polish anticommunist hero and Solidarity co-founder Lech Walesa declined a meeting last week with Barack Obama on the Polish leg of the president's European trip. The snub sparked an uproar in Poland, where some accused the Nobel laureate of personal pettiness. But on the twittersphere, he drew the wrath of the American progressive establishment.
Given that academic freedom is limited in the United Arab Emirates, Western universities risk moral catastrophe by setting up branches in the wealthy sheikdom.
