It Takes a School, Not Missiles

Re:It Takes a School, Not Missiles by mynameishere on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @12:35PM (#246801)

Cripe. I have this vision of my property taxes going up 100-fold as I pay to educate every single child in the world. The NEA will be thrilled. Really, it's not the USA's responsibility to buy schools for non-Americans. Shit, it's not the USA's responsibility to buy schools anywhere.

Any genuinely effective techniques can be covered under this heading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations

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Re:It Takes a School, Not Missiles by JabavuAdams on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @01:29PM (#246859)

This is a strawman argument. Your tax dollars are paying for the military anyway. The article claims they can build 20 schools for the cost of one cruise missile.

In the long-run, we can't win the GWOT through military force alone. Even relatively hawkish people like Richard Clarke recognize this.

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Re:It Takes a School, Not Missiles by mynameishere on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @01:34PM (#246871)

Oh, man, schools and cruise missiles aren't fungible. Heck, no government program has ever replaced any other government program. We'll see those cruise missiles targeting the schools before that happens.

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Re:It Takes a School, Not Missiles by bgutierrez on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @01:03PM (#246831)

The U.S. takes on plenty of "responsibilities" that it shouldn't. I would be thrilled if the world saw the U.S. as ambitious educators, not aggressive policemen.

But don't worry; first world nations don't want our education anyway.

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Re:It Takes a School, Not Missiles by PieSquared on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @03:22PM (#246986)

Nor do many of the US's own citizens, sadly. Maybe that's why education is in this miserable state. Then again, when you compare it to third world countries...

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Re:It Takes a School, Not Missiles by klahnako on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @09:27PM (#247231)

...it's worse!

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