E o absurdo do fim-de-semana vai para o jurista americano que está lançando um programa, juntamente com a Primeira Dama, para “ensinar” aos jovens que eles deveriam ter ficado mais chocados com 11-setembro.

The associate justice said he had been surprised and disappointed to read after September 11 that some students in a Washington area Muslim school were unmoved by the attacks. “There was no sense of empathy, no moral outrage,” he said. “I said, ‘If that’s what’s happening in Maryland, imagine what’s happening in Cairo.’ And then what’s happening here.”

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He dismissed the suggestion that skeptics might view the program as a mere show of patriotism. “Our purpose, our mission is to share democracy with the world,” he said.