BM>    FT> Education is many things -- a friend of mine once brought
BM>    a stack of photos to work his merchant seaman father had
BM>    taken in mainland China during the 30's.  ...one photo
BM>    shows a woeful looking young man kneeling with head bent
BM>    before a Japanese officer holding a sword.  The next
BM>    photo showed ...
BM>    FT> Another shot showed a rather simple but attractive young
BM>    chinese female tied to a post, ... The next pkoto showed he
BM>    minus ...
BM>  
BM>    Nice piece of descriptive writing, Frank. It conjured up
BM>    powerful and compelling images.
BM>    But it was uncalled for. It would have been quite
BM>    sufficient for your argument to note that atrocities occur.
    I disagree.
    Many American students go to schools where "multiculturalism" is so 
important that the _fact_ that the Third World is routinely far worse than 
the worst of its "colonialist oppressors" is pushed under the rug.  Kids need 
to learn the truth.
BM>    Had you thought it absolutely necessary to elaborate, I
BM>    suggest it would have sufficed to note that beheadings and
BM>    mutilations took place. You went out of your way to startle
BM>    your readers with a disturbingly graphic description of
BM>    these atrocities.
    I wouldn't say so.  He just woke them up.  American kids today graduate 
from HS with little or no understanding of just how brutal the Third World is 
(out of fear of offending anyone), and then policy questions come up for them 
to relate to.
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