[Just the News] Former Israel Ambassador Michael Oren says the U.S. may someday have faith again in its institutions but there are immediate obstacles — "not the least of which is that the elite universities in the United States produce graduates who don't necessarily believe in the United States."Oren, who was Israel's ambassador the U.S. from 2009 to 2013,
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"Yes, but there are great obstacles," Oren replied. "There are obstacles that were beginning to emerge in the 1970s, but have come, you know, full blossom, not the least of which is that the elite universities in the United States produce graduates who don't necessarily believe in the United States."
He also questioned whether such schools "think that the United States is ... an exceptional country that's worth defending and fighting for, or that it has a mission to be the leader of the free world."