Rosett Asks: Why Are Americans Footing the Bill for A-jad's Deluxe Visit?

After recounting "the festival of treats" the UN has on tap for A-jad and his abominable ilk--

On Sept. 22, the same day on which he is scheduled to speak in the General Debate, there will be a Durban III “commemoration” of the 10th anniversary of the anti-Semitic 2001 Durban conference. There may be a General Assembly resolution attempting to conjure a Palestinian state infused with terrorists who, like Ahmadinejad, are dedicated to the eradication of Israel. And, special icing on Ahmadinejad’s U.S.-subsidized UN cake, Iran this September will take up a post as one of the 21 vice-presidents of the General Assembly

--UN scourge Claudia Rosett compares the very different treatment meted out to A-jad and another powerful man on a diplomatic mission:

Recall the case just three months ago, when a hotel maid accused the then-managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, of sexually assaulting her in his New York hotel suite. That case fell apart. But not before New York cops had marched Strauss-Kahn off a plane, in handcuffs, to face justice.

Compare that to the handling of Ahmadinejad. Granted, there’s no sign that he’s in the habit of personally assaulting New York hotel maids. He has bigger plans. When he arrives in the room of a New York luxury hotel, to attend the festivities at the UN, he is there to advance the goals of a regime that has bombed, butchered and tortured its way to power and influence, bankrolling and arming terrorists, plotting to strangle and subvert western democracy, threatening to wipe Israel off the map, and pursuing weapons of mass murder. Is that, perhaps, at least as bad as allegedly assaulting a hotel maid?

Yet, Ahmadinejad when he jets into New York, receives official U.S. cooperation and extravagant security, courtesy of U.S. and New York taxpayers, to ensure that while he is in the U.S. — toiling away to damage America and its allies — he is safe from any harm, or for that matter, safe from any justice. I’m sure there are elaborate rationales for why this should be so. But in plain and simple English, it is wrong.

Plain and simple English? Careful, Claudia. I think the OIC, the UN's largest voting bloc, wants people to be punished for that.