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Melat Kiros’ perverse views are the latest evidence that US schools need to be fixed

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America’s educational system has clearly failed, judging by the recent comments of 29-year-old lawyer Melat Kiros, who just won a Democratic primary in Colorado and is now a sure bet for Congress. 

And if we fail to fix that system — and to dispel young folks of the absurd notion that America and Israel are, essentially, the root of all the world’s problems — the nation faces a rocky road ahead for sure.

Kiros, a member of the radical Democratic Socialists of America, just dethroned Rep. Diana DeGette (D), despite (or maybe because of) her repugnant assertions.

She claimed, for example, that 9/11 was “inevitable” because the United States “destabilized a lot of the Middle East,” which convinced people that “violence was the only response.” 

Huh? 9/11 was part of a global Islamist campaign conducted by al Qaeda fanatics and its mastermind Osama bin Laden, the pampered scion of an ultra-rich Saudi family.

In 2002, an al Qaeda-linked group detonated bombs in a busy tourist district in Bali, Indonesia, killing hundreds; what........

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