Dear Allegedly Well Intentioned Loony Lefties, Does anybody know the death rate among Christian Missionaries in Pakistan? A, 95%.

Many Western teachers there to "Help" have also been accused of being "Christians, distributing Bibles" & also Murdered.

I propose we deport all members of the Radical, Extreme, Loony Left factions of the Red/green/getup/labour Communist Coalition plus the Socialist Alliance to all Islamic nations, so that they can, "Be the Change they want to see".

Please go there, educate the girls & leave all the boys behind to be "Educated" in a "Madrasa".

Your 5 year "Plans for Failure" have done wonders for "Education" in the land of OZ.

vanna - they make their own weapons, an A-47 can be made anywhere you have a reasonable lathe, as can RPGs, then you need various chemicals to make powder, not hard to obtain and percussion caps - slightly more complicated not but insurmountable.

All the AK-47s and RPGs used by Al Qaida can be and are made in towns like Peshawar in Pakistan, in Kabul or anywhere there are enterprising capitalists.

Educating fitters and turners in these countries enables mechanical skills, then reading and writing to get plans and understand them ..

they don't have to go outside their own areas to get reasonable weaponry .. if they want SAMs, that's another thing - we never hear of all the old SAMs given to mujahadin by the USA to use against Russia way back when, because they are a more sophisticated weapon with solid fuel, that ages .. yes, it has a use by date and when that is up, it is unstable .. best not to use at all.

you don't have to find a bogey man in the west

Amicus,
A car bomb is normally not that sophisticated, but I would think that an MK-47 would have to be properly designed before it could shoot straight, or shoot more than 10 rounds.

It is a tangled web when there is some evidence that Russia has been supplying the Taliban with weaponary, when previously Rusiian fought a decade long war against the Taliban.

And some evidence that the US taught Afgans how to make car bombs, so that they could set them off in towns in Russia.

There are underlying causes for all the trouble and stife, but I don't think lack of education is one of them.

"That's about the sanest comment I've seen on this thread."
Thankyou lentaubman, I was thinking the exact same thing about your propositions.

And I also agree- excluding disaster relief, we should not be offering any of our assets or assistance for free either- their willingess to actually pay would indeed suggest that there is enough support for our presence than to go blindly in and get a nasty shock;