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Afghanistan
Karzai Urges Taliban to Stop Burning Schools
2011-03-25
[Tolo News] President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
 urged the Taliban on Wednesday to stop torching schools in Afghanistan.

President Karzai slammed the situation of education in private schools and institutions.

The new school year was officially started by President Karzai banging a bell.

"We are not afraid of your bombs and guns. Come and fight, but don't burn your sons' and daughters' schools. If you torch schools, then it means that you are loyal to foreigners who trained you to torch schools so that they can stay here," President Karzai said.

The new school year begins as more than 400 schools have remained closed and 200,000 students are deprived of education in the country.

About 8.3 million students, of which 39 percent are girls, study in 14,000 schools and educational institutions, Education Minister, Farouq Wardak, said.

The minister said more than 4.5 million children of school age are still deprived of education.

According to the statistics provided by education ministry, fifty percent of Afghan schools still remain without standard buildings.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Very good point, Redneck Jim -- I hadn't thought of it in that way. Most Afghans seem keen to get their children educated, to provide them with opportunities for a better future. Positioned in that way, it would work as well as East Point, for which young men literally walked barefoot through the snow to get to.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-03-25 23:43  

#6  Yes TW, exactly what I meant. WE (USA) could offer a really better place to learn, Until the assholes Bomb it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-03-25 20:14  

#5  Works for Harry Potter.

Harry Potter went voluntarily to a place he considered much better than the alternative, Redneck Jim. Very different than being kidnapped by the conquering unbelievers, who thus flout God's intent and/or The Way Things Ought To Be.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-03-25 18:32  

#4  The boarding school thing doesn't seem to work well.

Heck, the public school system in America isn't too concerned about creating the model citizen with loyalty to something other than one's color, race, or creed.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-03-25 11:44  

#3  Works for Harry Potter.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-03-25 10:58  

#2  The Australians tried that with their aborigines, in the U.S. I believe that was tried with some of the Indian tribes. The boarding school thing doesn't seem to work well.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-03-25 10:14  

#1  Something the US should have done early on is to create enormous boarding schools in very defensible areas near larger cities, then require all children, or at least girl children, to be educated there. And to western educational standards.

On graduation, a large number of the best students automatically get jobs with the government and military.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-03-25 09:41  

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