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2011-01-05 Afghanistan

Karzai: Foreigners Should Stop Meddling in Constitution Implementation

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Posted by Fred 2011-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 It was a serious mistake to put this luser in power in the first place. What Afghanistan needed was a western bureaucracy running the place under a MacArthur (PBUH) constitution.

A new Afghan government to replace the western bureaucracy, judiciary, military & police, and business would have to be educated from scratch, in the equivalent of a polytechnic school in Kabul, which would admit only young children of the upper and upper middle classes, set to inherit familial wealth and power; and orphans whose sole loyalty was to the state.

Once that was set up and running, the next step would be to set up a large number of public boarding schools in secure areas of the major cities, with mandatory, western style education for all children in the country.

The only religious instruction would be their four daily Muslims prayers. No sermons. And children could opt out of these at will without parental notification.

The curriculum would be regimented and authoritarian, with a heavy dose of patriotism, nationalism, and an idealized history, with contempt for tribalism and some degree of xenophobia, as well as distrust of both Iran and Pakistan. Religion and government don't mix.

Their school culture should be internationalist, and they should be very familiar with the culture of the US, Europe, Russia, China and India.

Had this been done at the onset, by now these students would be in place, they would be taking positions of power throughout the country, displacing the old power structure.

Yes, to do this we would have to be total pricks, but the end result would be a strong and viable country.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-05 09:04|| 2011-01-05 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 perfect design moose.

Posted by Hellfish 2011-01-05 12:47|| 2011-01-05 12:47|| Front Page Top

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