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'Common Core' for Jihadists

• http://original.antiwar.com-Justin Raimondo

So you worry that the Islamist fanatics we're funding in Syria will be no different from the Islamist fanatics we supported during the 1980s in Afghanistan who morphed into Al Qaeda?

There's no need to fret, my friend – because science is coming to the rescue!

The US government is oh-so-very-carefully "vetting" the Syrian rebels, making sure they're really the Boy Scouts that Nicholas Kristof and Bill Kristol say they are. So how do they "vet" them? Easy as pie – psychological testing! The Washington Post reports (with a straight face):

"The U.S. military will subject Syrian rebels taking part in a new training program to psychological evaluations, biometrics checks and stress tests under a screening plan that goes well beyond the steps the United States normally takes to vet foreign soldiers, a sign of the risks the Obama administration faces as it expands support for armed groups in Syria."

I can hardly wait to see the test results – or, never mind that, the tests themselves! Imagine the questions:

"If you strap on a suicide vest and blow yourself up for the greater glory of the US State Department you will be rewarded with: A) 72 virgins, B) 72 weeks of the Weekly Standard, C) An autographed photo of Samantha Power, D) 72 former virgins."

So, you thought "Common Core" was just for domestic consumption, one of the benefits of Obama-ism that the poor downtrodden peoples of the world won't get to enjoy? Wrong!:


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