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To: Rollcast... who wrote (6591)	9/2/2003 6:10:38 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793799

Telling schoolkids Israel and America are imperialist is bad, but understandable. It's difficult to find law, domestic or international, that allows us to "demand" they change their curriculum to view Israel and America as benevolent, much as we'd like to. More evidence of terrorist ideology being sponsored by academia in the US... It does make sense to demand removal of teachings of violence, however -- that's a horse of an entirely different color, kind of like shouting "Terrorism" in a crowded world. Here's a good example of that, from a slightly different, but no less violent, source. These images were fed into the minds of a generation of millions of young Afghani terrorists-to-be by academia in the US. This academic work of violence was sponsored by the CIA, through AID. "Afghanistan's teachers are trying to erase war images from the textbooks, images that got there in the first place due in large part to Cold War policies in the United States." cbc.ca "... the U.S. gave the Mujahideen hundreds of millions of dollars in non-lethal aid; $43 million just for the school textbooks. The U.S. Agency for International Development, AID, coordinated its work with the CIA, which ran the weapons program." >>BTW, if you want a good curriculum for a new generation of young terrorists, here's how you do it: "The U.S. government told the AID to let the Afghan war chiefs decide the school curriculum and the content of the textbooks," says CBC'S Carol Off. "What discussions did you have with the Mujahideen leaders? Was it any effort to say maybe this isn't the best for an eight-year-old's mind?" "No, because we were told that that was not for negotiations and that the content was to be that which they decided," says Goutier. Some of the CIA/AID sponsored content in the article: "Math teachers use bullets as props to teach lessons in subtraction... the classroom has been the best place to indoctrinate young people with their duty to fight. Government-sponsored textbooks in Afghanistan are filled with violence... to prepare the next generation of Afghans to fight the enemy... pupils learned the proper clips for a Kalashnikov rifle, the weight of bombs needed to flatten a house, and how to calculate the speed of bullets. Even the girls learn it.