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No-one is saying that we shouldn't try to educate our potential enemies, especially in places like Afghanistan. I'm just pointing out that your "drop books on t

by cmdkeen 13y ago

No-one is saying that we shouldn't try to educate our potential enemies, especially in places like Afghanistan. I'm just pointing out that your "drop books on them instead" it fatuous and wouldn't work. Provide the security so that people won't be killed for being educated, and education is best. Educating without security just leads to dead kids.

fit2rule 13y ago
Look, take the amount of technology developed to murder, kill and maim - and instead use that same degree of technology to educate, enlighten, and liberate. How hard is it to understand this concept? It was once very, very difficult to drop a bomb on a childs head from afar - you used to have to do a lot more. Now its 'easy', relatively speaking. Imagine if that same scale of efficacy were applied, instead, to educating - to healing - to helping instead of killing. What would the "B1 Bomber" of education systems look like? Lets develop it, and deliver.
- melling 13y ago
  Most Americans think we already spend too much on foreign aid. So, politically what you are proposing isn't going to work. Perhaps a privately funded solution. The "Three Cups of Tea" author was doing some of this but it turned out he wasn't completely honest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Tea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Tea
  - fit2rule 13y ago
    >>Most Americans think we already spend too much on foreign aid. I've yet to meet an American who thinks the Trillion dollar military-industrial debt that they owe has been worth it. At all.
    - melling 13y ago
      My statement was in response to someone who thought we should give more money in foreign aid, which I would be in favor. Your statement is simply a complaint that really has no relevance. Are you in favor of giving more in foreign aid, to help build schools, etc?

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No-one is saying that we shouldn't try to educate our potential enemies, especially in places like Afghanistan. I'm just pointing out that your "drop books on t

by cmdkeen 13y ago

fit2rule 13y ago
Look, take the amount of technology developed to murder, kill and maim - and instead use that same degree of technology to educate, enlighten, and liberate. How hard is it to understand this concept? It was once very, very difficult to drop a bomb on a childs head from afar - you used to have to do a lot more. Now its 'easy', relatively speaking. Imagine if that same scale of efficacy were applied, instead, to educating - to healing - to helping instead of killing. What would the "B1 Bomber" of education systems look like? Lets develop it, and deliver.
- melling 13y ago
  Most Americans think we already spend too much on foreign aid. So, politically what you are proposing isn't going to work. Perhaps a privately funded solution. The "Three Cups of Tea" author was doing some of this but it turned out he wasn't completely honest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Tea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Tea
  - fit2rule 13y ago
    >>Most Americans think we already spend too much on foreign aid. I've yet to meet an American who thinks the Trillion dollar military-industrial debt that they owe has been worth it. At all.
    - melling 13y ago
      My statement was in response to someone who thought we should give more money in foreign aid, which I would be in favor. Your statement is simply a complaint that really has no relevance. Are you in favor of giving more in foreign aid, to help build schools, etc?