The new issue of Foreign Policy has a blurb on the increasing anti-Americanism of South Korea's textbooks. To demonstrate, they offered up this question from a teacher's packet on the 1991 Gulf War:
"Which of the following descriptions of Iraq after the Gulf War is incorrect?
1) Infant mortality increased by 150%, and in some areas, 70% of newborns had leukemia due to sanctions.
2) The United States and Britain conducted a bombing campaign against Iraq for 11 years after the war, causing terror among the Iraqi people.
3) Cancer among Iraqi children increased by 700% because of depleted uranium left from the bombing.
4) The infant mortality rate of Iraqi children in 1999 was 300% higher than it was a decade earlier.
5) Not one Iraqi starved to death after the war because of the extensive food relief program."
In case you were wondering, the correct choice -- meaning it's false and the others are true -- is 5. This is what's making it into the textbooks of our allies. I really can't imagine what our enemies are reading about us.
