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Blog: "It Takes a School, Not Missiles"  



An interesting, and timely, article that i was directed to...

 

Since 9/11, Westerners have tried two approaches to fight terrorism in Pakistan, President Bush’s and Greg Mortenson’s.

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Nicholas D. Kristof

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Greg Mortenson with Sitara “Star” schoolchildren.

Mr. Bush has focused on military force and provided more than $10 billion — an extraordinary sum in the foreign-aid world — to the highly unpopular government of President Pervez Musharraf. This approach has failed: the backlash has radicalized Pakistan’s tribal areas so that they now nurture terrorists in ways that they never did before 9/11.

Mr. Mortenson, a frumpy, genial man from Montana, takes a diametrically opposite approach, and he has spent less than one-ten-thousandth as much as the Bush administration. He builds schools in isolated parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, working closely with Muslim clerics and even praying with them at times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/opinion/13kristof.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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