America’s educational system has clearly failed, judging by the recent comments of 29-year-old lawyer Melat Kiros, who just won a Democratic primary in Colorado and is now a sure bet for Congress.
And if we fail to fix that system — and to dispel young folks of the absurd notion that America and Israel are, essentially, the root of all the world’s problems — the nation faces a rocky road ahead for sure.
Kiros, a member of the radical Democratic Socialists of America, just dethroned Rep. Diana DeGette (D), despite (or maybe because of) her repugnant assertions.
She claimed, for example, that 9/11 was “inevitable” because the United States “destabilized a lot of the Middle East,” which convinced people that “violence was the only response.”
Huh? 9/11 was part of a global Islamist campaign conducted by al Qaeda fanatics and its mastermind Osama bin Laden, the pampered scion of an ultra-rich Saudi family.
In 2002, an al Qaeda-linked group detonated bombs in a busy tourist district in Bali, Indonesia, killing hundreds; what “destabilization” was that in response to?
In 2004, another al Qaeda-linked group bombed trains in Madrid, killing almost 200 people: Was Spain “destabilizing” the Middle East?
In 2005, an al Qaeda affiliate attacked the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheikh; in 2008, the group staged a massive terror attack at a Marriott in Islamabad, capital of the nation where the group was founded.
What did any of those have to do with US “destabilization”? They were displays of power and terror, pure and simple.
It would be no surprise, of course, if Kiros got her skewed ideas from her schooling, since that’s where they’re pushed.
But it’s clear she has no idea what she’s talking about when it comes to al Qaeda and 9/11.
Ditto for her views on Israel and Oct. 7. On Hasan Piker’s chat show, Kiros said Hamas’ attack that day was also “inevitable.”
Again, Oct. 7 was an attempted genocide, committed by a widely acknowledged Islamist terror cadre, with the help of autocratic, theocratic, imperialistic Iran.
The barbarism was not in any way a response to Israeli policies; Israel withdrew from Gaza entirely in 2005.
Besides, no government policies should ever be expected to trigger terror attacks on innocent, helpless civilians, including babies and the elderly.
And it was that attack, by the way, that “destabilized” the region far more than anything Israel has ever done.
Kiros and her ilk, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, don’t see their perverse ahistorical beliefs as antisemitism, which they surely are, no matter how hard Jew haters try to distinguish it from anti-Zionism.
But again, such ignorant conceptions of the world don’t materialize out of thin air; they’re spread by American schools.
Mamdani’s father, for example, is a Columbia University professor who argues that the Arab-Israeli conflict is a clash “between settlers and the community they dispossessed.”
That stands Middle East history on its head. But countless students buy it, and it winds up endowing the oldest hatred with power and prestige.
As Kiros, Mamdani and all the new DSA radicals are proving, America’s schools are turning terrorists into victims and victims into aggressors.
If America is going to secure its future, it must start by fixing its schools.
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