PAA:
The unquoted point about Cannan wasn’t necessary to give the quote its proper context – that R. Solovitchik agrees that we are better off without all the new culture and technology. We know that he thinks it is necessary today, but the quote was only showing he agrees it would be better if it weren’t necessary.
Chacham Ovadia Yosef said a week after Rav Cohen’s remarks that he was only referring to the seruga leadership like Bennett and R. Druckman (who were promoting forcibly drafting the Bnei Torah), not to the seruga klal. Regarding Rav Kaplan, he said his hyperbolic remarks about the government ministers trying to draft the Bnei Torah were said in humor.
What do you make of the above quotes from the Tur, the Sefer Hachasidim, the Aruch Hashulchan and the Torah Temimah?