Cut and Run

Much has been written in Cyberland about how the Powers That Be look down upon those who would pull our troops out of Iraq. We must stay the course, They say. We cannot cut and run. That's what they call leaving the place in chaos. Cut and Run. Of course, the funny thing is, none of the people I personally know saying this have children over there saving the Middle East from Chaos.

They do however, have children. Children that they are removing from Public Schools, because of the chaos. They will not sacrifice the futures of their children to help save the public schools. (Those other children there? Let there own parents worry about them. Pass me a voucer request form.)

So to make sure I understand. Pulling troops out of harms way in another country's civil war, Cut and Run. Pulling children out of public schools until all the people who actually care and have the means and motivation to be useful are gone with them, NOT cutting and running? What's the difference?

Put another way, the purpose of education, to some, is not to better oneself in the world, but to keep a nice sized gap between the Them and Us. Education is about keeping people in their places and able to read well enough to follow orders when we send them to fight our oil corporation's, uh, I mean, country's wars.