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Dulce bellum inexpertis War is Sweet to Those Who Have Never Experienced It

W. R. Baker

While March 29th is National Vietnam War Veterans Day, the official federal remembrance day (August 18th in Australia and New Zealand), each of us who went to war will probably remember not only the date we left the United States and the date we returned, but also certain events in-between that occurred in the land which President Reagan called 100 rice paddies and jungles in a place called Vietnam.

The individual Vietnam remembrance day might be the day you were first fired upon (perhaps shelled, mortared, or shot at) or the day wounded occurring with those who became your closest family, who you relied upon each day, just as they did you. War has a way of throwing the best and the worst things at you all at once and Vietnam certainly proved that.

One of the most important remnants of the Vietnam War seems to be how it is still popularly reported by historians who mostly never had a stake in the game. The repetitive nature of their books and articles continue to remain distorted, inaccurate, and often just plain wrong, no matter how often they repeat each other.

The Draft was a fact of life for young men, however as much it may upset many today. Boys were taught such things as to hold doors open for women and, yes, to protect them from harm that was how boys were raised by parents who were raised that way too no apologies. Having a Draft Card was also a rite of passage, as well. Despite the cowards who fled, the protesting students, and college professors who egged them on, most young men answered The Call. This was because we were also raised by our WWII parents to take up the obligation to our country first which many people unfortunately snicker at today.

The much-maligned Domino Theory also proved accurate from the onset. New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and the countries in the region had already faced (or were about to become challenged by) communists attempting to gain control of their countries - all united to prevent North Vietnams dominance of Southeast Asia and the obvious threat that communism posed to their countries. Many also showed their support of the American effort by deploying troops into South Vietnam, as well.

Rarely mentioned is that a treaty of neutrality on Laos was signed by North and South Vietnam (et al) in July 1962. Not surprisingly, North Vietnam ignored their written promise from the onset. During the War, the North positioned divisions in both Cambodia and Laos. Their forces would often strike into South Vietnam and run back across the border afterward, which we were forbidden to cross, even if we were in contact or hot pursuit.

History of the Vietnam War has also been hijacked by such people as socialist/communist Howard Zinn with his far-left version of American History. It is absurd and includes, of course, a section on Vietnam which many historians and school curriculums have embraced and feel determined to accept and teach. Of course, there is no mention of Zinn going to Hanoi at least twice during the war.

South Vietnam ultimately fell to the communists because academia, the press, and the politicians failed to continue sponsoring this budding democracy. When you are commanded to fight with one hand behind your back, the outcome is predictable. The aftereffects of our abandonment of South Vietnam were almost immediate: re-education camps where 185,000 died, 65,000 were executed outside of the camps, and 2 million refugees fled (and the 250,000 who died on the ocean) trying to escape the communist regime.

Its interesting to note that, as Vietnam veterans get older, historians (particularly those who never served) have accepted these slanted changes in American history put forward by collapsing education systems without many moral or ethical values. They are quick to question the memories of those who were raised differently and are still alive to impart how things really were during the Vietnam War not the omissions and biased interpretations that the repetition of academia, the self-important press, and the politicians are so keen to present as fact. It is bizarre that our military schools preach this impotent type of history because they should know better.

We can be proud of what we tried to do in Vietnam - though the fictional three-headed Hydra still guards a greatly distorted brand of truth, which some veterans groups and individuals seem to have also succumbed to.

This is our dilemma, but not the same one that the countries (and Montagnards) of Southeast Asia had to endure due to Hanois unbridled militaristic expansion and subjugation of their own people after we left. You can ignore these facts and say its not our fault that millions more were killed no matter how many times you might repeat it, it will also never be true.

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People want to kill Waldemar Zurek. They shout epithets at him on the street. News sites call him a traitor, thief and disgrace to his country. His crime, as he put it recently stepping out of a courtroom where he faced anti-government charges, is at once simple and dangerous:

Doing my job.

Zurek is among hundreds of judges who have marched against the harassment, discipline and dismissals theyve encountered for criticizing Polands increasingly zealous nationalist government. They range from local judges to the Supreme Court president. Judges from 22 European countries joined them on the streets of Warsaw last month to oppose changes they said would erode the independence of Polands courts.

In the four years since the right-wing Law and Justice party was elected to power, this nation that was once hailed as a post-Soviet success story has become the object of scorn among human rights groups. Legislators have imposed restrictions on news outlets, clamped down on museums, called for the closing of its borders to Muslim refugees and railed against gay rights as a foreign threat to Polish identity.

The judges find themselves at the center of a battle over the nations and, to a wider extent, Europes democratic ideals in a time of resurgent populism and xenophobia.

I dont recognize my country, said Zurek.

He was born in 1970 in Chrzanow, about 20 miles southeast of Katowice, to anti-communist activists. As a teenager, he spray-painted walls in his hometown with slogans against the government and state media Down with communism, Solidarity and TV news is lying and protested with revolutionary groups under threat of arrest. But Zurek is facing a different, more troubling, enemy today.

Hes changed phone numbers to avoid anonymous text messages that call him a communist pig who should be sent to camps in North Korea. At one point, he stopped going to the market with his family after receiving emails promising two shots to his face when he was out with his wife and two young girls.

Demonstrators carry a large national flag during a protest against the governments court overhaul in front of the Polish Parliament in Warsaw.

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Over the years, the Law and Justice party has appointed its allies to a constitutional tribunal, taken over the body that selects new judges and attempted to purge the Supreme Court. This month, the government clashed with European Union officials after the Polish president signed a law prohibiting judges from questioning changes to the judicial system.

The party has dispatched state TV and commercials to depict judges as elite and out of touch. A prime-time TV show that debuted this year, The Caste, features stories of corrupt judges, while billboards describe them as thieves and violent drunkards. At least $2 million has been spent on the campaign, according to Polish media reports.

For those Americans who are concerned about a constitutional crisis in the United States, weve got nothing on Poland, said R. Daniel Kelemen, a professor of political science at Rutgers University who focuses on Europe.

As right-wing, nationalist, populist governments have gained influence across the continent, notably in Hungary, Poland is the new battleground. There have even been suggestions of a Polexit, he said, referring to Brexit, Britains departure from the EU.

It all comes as right-wing movements have made gains across Europe, including in neighboring Germany, where a racist gunman last week killed nine people.

Demonstrators rally in support of judges outside the Court of Appeal in Katowice, where Judge Waldemar Zurek was called to appear in January.

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Under EU law, members are bound by legal standards that apply across the union. The EU, which Poland joined in 2004, has sued Warsaw repeatedly for tampering with the courts. Pressure has grown for the bloc to cut the billions of euros it sends each year to Poland. And the Polish Supreme Court recently declared that the countrys flouting of European law might force it to leave the EU.

When communism fell 31 years ago, Zurek enrolled in the countrys oldest university to become a lawyer. Over his 22 years as a judge in Krakow, he was hailed as a rising star for his caseloads and legal opinions, often on lawsuits between major corporations. He spent eight years on the National Council of the Judiciary, which appoints judges and reviews complaints about them, before he said the ruling party forced him out and installed its allies. The countrys major legal newspaper, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, once named him the best judge of Poland, and his name was floated to join the Supreme Court.

Most of that was before the Law and Justice party won parliamentary elections, first in 2015 and again last year on a platform of reforming the court system, which it said was overburdened, inefficient and rife with communist-era holdovers. Former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and twin brother Lech founded the party in 2001. Lech was president when he died in a plane crash in 2010. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is now in Parliament, wields tremendous influence on the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, who ran for office as a party member.

There is an ongoing war regarding the state of democracy in Poland, said Adam Bodnar, a government ombudsman and independent human rights monitor. We are in the last stages.

Judge Waldemar Zurek

(Jacek Taran / For The Times)

Representatives of the nations Ministry of Justice did not reply to requests for comment from the Los Angeles Times. In a December interview with the Polish Press Agency, Kaczynski said that judges actually do not bear the consequences of even their most unlawful and harmful actions, were part of a sick system and could be evil.

Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski, who has clashed with EU officials over Polands judicial transformation, said in an interview that critics were playing politics while the government was democratizing the courts and making them more transparent.

We have been accused of all kinds of crimes against democracy. Its not true, Jablonski said. We want our judges to stop being political. They should be impartial.

The words unnerve Zurek, who fears he will eventually be out of a job, or worse.

Poland is going backward, he said recently during a meeting in a cafe across the street from his court to avoid what he said was regular street harassment during interviews. The government now has a totalitarian mentality.

Zurek during his appearance at the Court of Appeal in Katowice.

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In Katowice, about an hour from his Krakow court, Zurek showed up last month on charges that he disobeyed the orders of a superior appointed by the ruling party to switch to a new court division. He has appealed the transfer.

Some of the accusations against us judges seem from the outside like we are picking small fights, he said in an interview. But these are tactics the government is using to set us up to fail. They give us new responsibilities, give us big caseloads, and dont give us adequate clerks, to set us up to fail all because we question the pseudo-reform of the judiciary.

He has also been investigated by the governments anti-corruption office on suspicion of not paying taxes, including on a tractor he sold five years ago. In another case, the government charged him for a tweet last year in which he criticized the appointment to the Supreme Court of an attorney aligned with the ruling party. Hes also faced criticism for participating in a public debate on the judiciary. Once a popular lecturer at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution in Krakow, he has now been banned by his court from teaching.

Dozens of demonstrators showed up in support of Zurek at his hearing, as they do at many of the court proceedings against judges that have become commonplace around the country. They held Polish flags and posters that said wolne sady! The phrase means independent or free courts.

We will return to the dictatorship, because now all power will be in the hands of one party, just as it was during [communism], said Henryk Mizerski, a 70-year-old who was part of the Solidarity anti-communist movement of the 1980s.

This government isnt creating anything. Its only decomposing our law and society, said another demonstrator, Tadeusz Kus, 60.

Demonstrators attend a hearing at the Court of Appeal in Katowice, Poland, to support Zurek.

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Although tens of thousands have marched in Warsaw and elsewhere over the months in support of judges, they represent a small fraction of the countrys population of nearly 38 million. Among the nations 10,000 judges, about 1,000 at most have spoken up publicly or attended protests over the judiciary. Judges associations, which have been unified in their opposition, say many of their members stay quiet because they fear retribution.

Early this month, after the new law banning judges from criticizing the government was signed, thousands of Poles rallied in support in Warsaw by the Constitutional Tribunal building. They held signs that read popieram reforme sadow! I support court reform!

Justice is the strength and the foundation of the power of the Republic of Poland, protest leader Adam Borowski told the crowd. If this justice is not found in the courts, our homeland will be weak.

The Law and Justice partys successes in elections and pushing its agenda are in part a result of a healthy Polish economy and generous social welfare programs. Hovering around 5%, the unemployment rate is at a historic low. The government, meanwhile, has spent the equivalent of billions of dollars on programs popular with poor and middle-class Poles, including a 500 zloty monthly allowance about $126 for each child in a family, banning income taxes for 2 million workers under 26, and promising to nearly double the minimum wage by 2023.

Protesters hold banners in support of Zurek outside the Court of Appeal in Katowice.

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For a family that sees itself doing better under the party, the issue of courts seems like an obscure issue that doesnt affect it, said Bodnar, the government ombudsman. He added that the court overhaul also had its source in real problems.

The Polish judiciary does need substantial reform. There is a big backlog. In big cities, you may have to wait more than a year for the first hearing in a divorce case, Bodnar said. So when the government says there needs to be reform, people agree. But the actions the government takes are entirely different.

Zurek, who has become accustomed to the onslaught of critics, said he feared for the future of his country and his family.

After a demonstration last month in Krakow where he spoke, a drunken man cornered Zurek to yell at him about his speech, saying it was wrongly anti-government. Zurek said the moment reminded him of another incident that shocked the nation. In January 2019, Pawel Adamowicz, a liberal mayor of the northern city of Gdansk and well-known government critic, was stabbed to death on stage during a charity concert by a man who opposed his political views.

The government blamed the crime on a deranged man with a checkered past. Activists questioned whether bitter political divisions and the demonizing of government critics in the media played a role in the hatred.

I feel we judges are heading toward the same situation now, Zurek said, clutching a cross with a Polish eagle that he wears on his neck. I pray nothing happens to me.

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Shark Tank stars Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary blasted Senator Bernie Sanders over his recent controversial remarks about the legacy of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro Tuesday.

The pair made their comments during an appearance on ABC News' The View. Neither of the wealthy reality show hosts seemed pleased with the prospect that Sanders could become president. Cuban criticized the state of the presidential election and politics in general.

"Oh, my goodness, it's like pick your choice of crazy," said Cuban. "It's unbelievable. It's like sitting down with kids and telling fairy tales and hoping something comes true. Politics used to be around facts, policies, intellectual discussions. Now, it's like who's team are you on? It's more about what story you want to fall behind."

Billionaire Cuban went on to say that the Sanders narrative was like "Robin Hood" because he wants to "take from the rich and give to the poor," while Trump was "robbin' from the hood" because he wants to "take from the rich and keep it for himself."

The panel then quickly turned to the topic of Sanders' Sunday appearance on 60 Minutes, where he controversially praised a literacy program initiated by Castro after taking power in Cuba. O'Leary believed the comments were a mistake on the part of Sanders.

"That's probably a mistake from a point of view of trying to get momentum in a state like Florida," said O'Leary. "I have a home in Miami, it's a very multicultural place. You don't talk about Fidel Castro, ever. They don't even like to talk about him and here's Bernie out here with 'yeah you know, this dictator isn't so horrible.' Yeah he's horrible."

Co-host Joy Behar pushed back on O'Leary's characterization of Sanders' remarks, saying "[Castro] did one good thing, he said."

O'Leary then claimed that Castro's literacy program was really a "re-education program," noting that "there's a big difference." The 1961 program did include overt political messaging that could be considered propaganda.

However, the program was also successful in increasing literacy rates in the country, regardless of politics. An estimated 23.6 percent of Cubans were illiterate in 1959, but only 3.9 percent could not read and write when the program ended two years later.

O'Leary has previously been a political candidate in his home country of Canada, where he ran an unsuccessful 2017 campaign to become the leader of the country's Conservative party. The businessman did not believe Sanders' current campaign was likely to be successful either.

"I think the chance that Bernie is going to turn this country into a communist country is zero, that's what I think," O'Leary said.

"Of course, he's not going to do that," countered Behar.

Although many critics of Sanders have labelled him a "communist," the senator has consistently denied being one. The label he does accept is that of democratic socialist, a political ideology that has some key differences from communism.

Newsweek reached out to the Sanders campaign for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa sat down for an interview with the Townhalls Katie Pavlich on the main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, where they equated socialismand communismandadmitted thathaving GOP women on the Senate Judiciary Committeeon which they both servewas long overdue.Both Ernst and Blackburn received that committee appointment last year, making them the first Republican women to serve on the Judiciary.

Ernst, who is up for reelection in 2020, recounted her brush with a socialist country by a personal story about going on an agriculture exchange trip to the Soviet Union while attending Iowa State University. The Soviet Union was communist.

I had the opportunity to go on an agriculture exchange to the Soviet Union. I lived on a collective farm, where my family had no running water, they were farming with horses and wagons on the collective, they had no refrigerator, they had no automobile. They shared one bicycle amongst all the family members, Ernst said. That was socialism, folks, living in poverty. If thats what were striving for as the United States, Im not having any of it.

Pavlich chimed into notethat the Soviet Union was communistbefore suggesting they were oneandthe same.

I think when you say Bernie Sanders went to honeymoon in the former Soviet Union, it wasnt a socialist country, it was a communist country, Pavlich said. Were not talking about some low-level tinge of socialism, were talking about tyranny, authoritarianism, and the opposite of freedom for individuals;its completely the opposite of what America was founded on.

Blackburn used the mention of Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont,to attack Sanders for applauding Cubas literacy program on 60 Minutes Sunday. He was probably excited that Castro was teaching them how to readThe Communist Manifesto,which was on his bedside tableit wasnt the Gideon Biblewhile he was honeymooning in the Soviet Union, Blackburn said.

Blackburn recalled hosting people from the old Sovietblocwhen she was in theTennesseestate Senate. A man from Estonia, she says, kissed the floor at the Grand Ole Opry. He said, You know, I would listen toRadio FreeEurope. And I would hear country music, and it would come from the Grand Ole Opry, she said,going on to suggestthat country music had inspired him to lead his country to freedom. Here was this individual who was standing up to lead his country to freedom as a newly minted, newly found leader. What had inspired him was music that he heard over the radio, she said.

At one point during their conversation, Ernst mentioned serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Blackburn. Both of us serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Were the first Republican women to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ernst said.

Ever, Blackburn interjected.

Ever. Long overdue, I would say, Ernst said.

Long overdue, but were at 192 judges, 192 federal judges, Blackburn said, referring to the number of Trump-appointed judges confirmed by the committee.

Blackburn and Ernst were appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2019, nearly three decades after Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein became thefirst womanto serve on the Judiciary Committee. In 2018, Sen. Chuck Grassley, then the chairman ofJudiciary,explainedthe lack of Republican women on the committee by saying, Its a lot of work. Maybe they dont want to do it.

Ernst, who was elected to the Senate in 2014, once endorsed the notion of impeaching former President Barack Obama and suggested that states could nullify federal laws. She also has taken to peddling in conspiracy theories around Agenda 21, a 1993 non-binding U.N. treaty on sustainable development methods.

In 2013, Ernstpredictedthat Agenda 21 agents may start moving people off of their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers and then telling them that you dont have property rights anymore. These are all things that the UN is behind, and its bad for the United States, bad for families here in the state of Iowa.

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On Wednesday morning on Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough dismissed a Princeton University professors explanation of Bernie Sanderss electoral appeal despite Sanderss open, lifelong admiration for socialist dictators.

Who is telling him to continue to defend Castro, to continue to defend the Sandinistas, to continue to defend the Soviets? I think he can check the [polling] crosstabs, its doesnt play well in Charleston, Scarborough said.

I think two things, responded panelist Eddie Glaude Jr., chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. One, I think its Bernie Sanders being true to his brand, that hes consistent, hes authentic, that there are particular segments of folks who fought the battles of the 1960s and held particular positions around the revolutions around the world particularly those revolutions that were about decolonization, right, fighting back against the West.

Note that Glaude is spewing the Communist Party line here about Communist-incited and -funded proxy conflicts during the Cold War. It not incidentally is the perspective shared by the 2.6 million-copy-selling A Peoples History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, which is common in U.S. classrooms despite compounded factual errors and rank political indoctrination.

While the U.S. government still considers Communist Party membership a disqualifying factor for U.S. citizenship, elites like Zinn and Glaude are cultivating its perspectives among the native-born. As Ill show below, theyve been successful.

So hes got that 2 percent on his side, alright, what does he do with the other 98 percent? Scarborough interjected.

The other 98 percent, what [Bernie] should do is say, what is it about he shouldnt talk about necessarily defending Castros betrayal of the Cuban revolution, or defending the brutality of the Sandinistas in some ways, what he should be talking about what he values, Glaude responded. What is it about the campaign for literacy that was valuable, what is it about the doctors thatCuba sent around the world to help in the CaribbeanWhat I value is that everybody should have a good education, everybody should have health care, everyone should be able to not only dream dreams but make those dreams a reality.'

The problem is, though, he has, he has an affinity and you look at the tapes, he has an affinity for these communist dictatorships, Scarborough replied.

Joe Scarborough needs to get out a little bit more. Hatred for the West is strong, and rising, especially among the young who are Sanderss most ardent supporters.

This is directly due to compounded generations of increasingly atrocious public education. The anti-America trend started at the university level, but has now trickled down to K-12 public schools through decades of university miseducation of those who teach in and lead those schools.

Not only have American public schools now failed for generations to bestow a knowledge of and respect for their own countrys magnificent political achievements and uniqueness, they have begun open political indoctrination that feeds this ignorance with lies. The United States is now host to large numbers of citizens who believe that theirs is an evil country, with no exposure to facts and viewpoints that contradict this opinion.

It has been long known that American education institutions are spectacular failures at teaching the rising generation about their birthright to self-governance. The famous 1983 report A Nation at Risk declared it a national crisis that In many schools, the time spent learning how to cook and drive counts as much toward a high school diploma as the time spent studying mathematics, English, chemistry, U.S. history, or biology. Things only got worse.

Today, 4 in 10 Americans who are younger than 39 disagree that the United States has a history we should be proud of, according to a 2019 poll by FLAG/YouGov. The poll also found that half of all Americans agree the United States is a sexist and racist country, including two-thirds of millennials. Millennials showed the lowest level of agreement with the statement, Im proud to be an American. Thirty-eight percent of younger Americans do not agree that America has a history that we should be proud of,' according to the poll.

2019s annual poll from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that 37 percent of millennials think the United States is among the most unequal societies in the world. Despite their curriculas obsession with so-called multiculturalism and diversity, they clearly have zero sense of what life is like in most of the world, and how that contrasts with the United States singular freedoms and opportunities.

The VOC poll found that 70 percent of millenials said they are likely to vote for a socialist. It also found that 57% of Millennials (compared to 94% of the Silent Generation), believe the Declaration of Independence better guarantees freedom and inequality over the Communist Manifesto.

That poll also found that large percentages of younger Americans said communism was presented favorably in their elementary, middle, and high schools. The survey didnt ask about favorable presentations of socialism, but since socialism is regarded as nice communism, its likely favorable presentations of socialism in public education today are at much higher numbers.

It gets far scarier. Thirty-five percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 said in a 2019 Cato poll that sometimes violence against the rich is justified. Violence. In the poll, people who supported socialism of any age group were more likely to agree that sometimes violence against the rich is justified. This poll, like others, found that support for socialism is strongest among the young.

This support for socialism, communism, and political violence dovetails with mass ignorance about Americas unique political system of constitutionally secured natural rights and limited government. In the FLAG/YouGov poll, for example, more than 80 percent of Americans ages 39 and younger could not say what rights the First Amendment protects, and three-quarters or more couldnt name any authors of The Federalist Papers. Not incidentally, during its reign the Obama administration ended nationwide U.S. history and civics tests, which for several decades consistently showed similar civic ignorance.

This ignorance isnt remotely new. A decade ago, a survey of American adults found, according to NBC News:

over twice as many people know Paula Abdul was a judge on American Idol than know that the phrase government of the people, by the people, for the people comes from Lincolns Gettysburg Address.The study finds that only half of U.S. adults can name all three branches of government, and just 54% know that the power to declare war belongs to Congress.

The Northwest Ordinance, one of the four organic laws that created the United States, is the only one that mentions education. The very reason that the United States has public schools is to ensure the continued strength of our historic experiment in republican self-government under the rule of law. An ignorant people are incapable of governing themselves.

The Ordinance expresses the broad commitment of Americas founding fathers to broadening literacy and education for the key purpose of perpetuating our nation in fidelity to its original design. It states, Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

Notice here how one of the nations supreme laws defines the civic purpose of education: to uphold religion, morality, and knowledge. If a nation maintains an education system that encourages vice, apostacy, and ignorance, how can it possibly justify either those institutions or the funds spent on them? And how can a nation whose education institutions use public resources to attack their own people, form of government, and history long expect to endure?

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