Deprogramming the Young Victims of the Cult

Stars and Stripes reported on the horror of what the dean of the South Korean Military Academy encountered when peering into the ignorance of the freshman class.

When the Korea Military Academy asked its incoming cadets in 2004 to name South Korea’s main enemy, they were shocked at the answer: 34 percent said the United States while only 33 percent said North Korea.

As in... their neighbors to the north who have been building short-range missiles and developing nukes. While lefty critics evasively insist that the RoK is not the DPRK’s target, they miss the point that the RoK is the DPRK’s only interest in the world, and seem more than willing to threaten Japan and the US in pursuit of controlling that interest.

The academy’s then-superintendent, retired Lt. Gen. Kim Choong-bae, was so concerned about the survey results he cut the cadets’ boot camp from six weeks to four.

During the two extra weeks, cadets attended classes on South Korean history to learn how the country got its independence, what happened during the Korean War, and the role the United States played in the war.

Teachers told them about the U.S. Military Academy at West Point class of 1950, whose cadets graduated less than a month before the start of the Korean War. Nearly 50 of those cadets were killed.

“The [KMA] cadets were shocked. They said, ‘We didn’t know that,’” Kim said.

But HOW could this be?????

The cadets told academy officials they had leftist teachers in middle and high school who told them the United States was trying to dominate South Korea.

“The young cadets were kind of victims of the wrong education. They were kind of indoctrinated by the wrong education, the wrong textbooks,” Kim said. “Youngsters have no idea what was the Korean War, what was the contribution by the United States. They’ve been educated with a different perspective for the past 10 years.”

Not that this is anything but predictable. Whatever their faults... teaching bald-faced lies to students, etc., they need to be cherished, go unchallenged, and lauded because it’s for the children. After all they’re just compelled to do this by the grand human imperative for peace, love, redistribution of misery, the pasteurizing of individuals into powerless tools of the state... You know, all that “liberation” that the leftists of the world are known for.

And all because they care about you. Now here’s your dog treat.

Kim said the anti-Americanism of four to six years ago has died down, but many South Koreans still believe North Korea wants to use its nuclear capabilities against the United States or Japan, not South Korea.

Some favor reuniting with North Korea so the South can have access to those capabilities, he said.