re: #12 Obdicut

Because obviously, if they were our dire enemy, being entirely ignorant of them would be a good thing.

Even his bigotry is flawed.

I was reading an Al Franken book (DON’T SHOOT!!), and he has an anecdote about O’Reilly or Hannity, one of them, bitching about a college making a book about the Koran required reading for incoming freshmen. He demanded to know if we would have assigned a book about Shinto and the cult of the emperor during WWII.

And I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, that might have been a good idea, actually…”