Posted by tealady on September 25, 2006, at 20:31:46
In reply to Re: It is heartwarming, posted by Declan on September 7, 2006, at 3:55:59
saw on TV last night a documentary on Afganistan. It came acros=s to me that the locals seem to be feeling they don't care who the govt is...just that when it was the Taliban in power they got food, now they don't... the repression etc., other conditions are much the same, well according to those heard from...
They dont really care but would prefer to have food to eat? .. so surprisingly aren't exactly thankful for their liberation..also saw the US funding printing of textbooks, as well as the usual US aid mostly going to US contractors and money really benefitting US.. very litttle benefitting the country its for, and even less the people... I just hate road buiding funding as well
"At times, says Jones, education spending by the US has also gone strangely wrong.
ANN JONES: In the education projects that were done by US private contractors, they went in and reprinted books that had originally been devised by Islamist extremists in the midst of the American proxy war against the Soviets. So these textbooks give their lessons in terms of fighting against the infidels and fighting against Satan and all of that. They are, as one Afghan education expert told me, appropriate for the madrassas, but certainly not for the schools, and yet the United States paid for reproducing millions of these books and handing them out to schoolchildren who were going back to school."
source:http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1748069.htm
poster:tealady
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