From Ahmadinejad to You; a revolutionary blog post

In the letter Ahmadinejad appeals to us as fellow "God-fearing, truth-loving, justice-seeking" human beings and expresses his hope that we can work together for peace in the world. I'm not sure I trust him, or agree with many of his opinions, or understand his surely complex political motivations, but the gesture of the leader of the world's only Islamic theocracy, a nation we deemed part of the Axis of Evil, using the technology of the blog to forego traditional channels and the echelons of power in our country to write to us, feels to me revolutionary. I urge all of you to read it. Seeing his words, the words of a man commonly perceived by Americans to be evil and almost impossibly foreign, in blog form, and then reading them as I have read so many other blogs this semester was a surreal and wonderful experience. The world is truly getting smaller, and if this smallness allows for the humanization of our supposed enemies by allowing us to interact with them directly, rather than through the careful framing of the media, well, isn't that a beautiful and powerful thing?