If our students and professors today would study the Classics, they might rediscover the origins of their culture -- and in doing so learn that we are not even remotely akin to the Taliban or the Saudis, but are in fact profoundly different in the manner we craft our government, treat our women, earn our living, and set the parameters of our religion.
But they won't study the classics - and they can't admit that our civilization is and arguably more humane, free, prosperous, advanced and truly more worthy one than that of the hellish medieval culture of the Islamic states. They can't tell the truth about the Islamic states - despotisms, all. They can't admit that because they have one thing in common with the Islamic medievalists: they despise this country and everything for which it stands, and they are filled with hate for people like you and me - and they wish to destroy us.