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Arjay,

Containing China ?! Check this out: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-10/08/content_8767743.htm and see who is doing the heavy lifting for whom, and who is piggy-backing on whom.

Yes, vanna, the Yanks are so dopey that they didn't think of that before they rigged those buildings. But, hey, you did, which just goes to prove your cleverness :)

To get back to the topic: yes, pumping money into schools, and teacher training institutions as quickly as possible, particularly for teachers to work in schools for girls, would be a win-win situation for both the Coalition and for Afghan women (and win-win-win, if we count the ultimate benefits of stability to China and its investment policies).

But ironically, the longer the Coalition is in the country, and the more effective an educational program for girls might be, the more brutal the Taliban would be, wherever it could re-establish itself.

So that's the dilemma: do 'we' stay and finish the job, no matter how longer it takes (come on, Arjay, tell me that it can never be finished), or do 'we' withdraw, give the country over to the Taliban and every other pro-Khilafa group as a safe haven, and bugger the millions of girls and women ? And all of the men who have supported them ?

Or is education, free speech and freedom of expression bad because the Yanks claim to be supporting them ? US bad, therefore Taliban good ? Is that the level of thinking that the 'Left' has sunk to ?

Jo

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