So how about using this week to teach our children something they don't know?
Consider our ongoing war in Afghanistan, which appears to be losing its support at home. ...... Our kids need to be reading, talking, and thinking about the answer. Some of them will become soldiers one day, of course, but all of them will become citizens. And they will have to sort these things out for themselves.
What better time than this week? Just three days after Obama's school speech, after all, the nation will commemorate the eighth anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The 9/11 attacks remain at the heart of America's rationale for fighting in Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda planned and financed them.
That's why Obama referred to 9/11 no fewer than five times in his address last March justifying increased troop commitments to Afghanistan. Unless we root out terrorists and rebuild Afghanistan, the argument goes, we will always remain in peril.
I'm not sure I buy that. But I'd like to hear the president make the case for it directly to our young people. And, most of all, I'd like to hear them respond
Now what makes you think that you know better than the President Of The United States Of America in regards to what our children should or should not be taught?
But all joking aside, why shouldn't your suggested agenda be scrutinized, criticized and debated just as the President's current agenda is and has been? Is it because it is something that YOU believe in? Are you saying that if the President spoke to these children about the issues that YOU think are important, than you would not object to his making a speech to our children? That you would no longer view his speaking to our children a socialistic move on his part?
