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ping to February!
Applause!
An effective program I wish had been launched early on in Afghanistan, is a rational public works program, whose purpose is to hire every available person to rebuild their nation.
Afghanistan has such a small typical wage that vast numbers of people could have been hired to do this in parallel with military operations.
There are any number of nation-building objectives that would be met in the process, such as the creation of a national banking system, the creation of tens of thousands of small businesses with micro-loans, the repair of old infrastructure and the building of new.
And especially, to replace some of the tribalism with a sense of nationalism, uniting a very fractured country.
In many ways, such a public works program would be military activities by other means, in that it would accomplish many military goals in the process. This effectiveness of this has been demonstrated countless times in Iraq.
At the beginning, it would be a systematic process completely run by Americans, but teaching a new generation of management by younger Afghanis, not yet exposed to the endemic corruption, mismanagement, and sectarianism of their elders. Many would barely be high school age.
Much of their instruction would be anti-corruption indoctrination, plain and simple. To not just be rigidly honest themselves, and to insist on it in others, but to see it as a patriotic duty. To build an intolerant culture of honesty and efficiency.
It would be many years before such a generation is ready to lead, but at least one would be waiting in the wings, armed not just with a better way, but the understanding of why it is a better way.
A belated “THANK YOU” Ian.
Your dedication is appreciated by many of us who rarely post anymore yet continue to follow the Matrix threads.
Self ping for later
And now for today’s entertainment news:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=omarbinladen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965176/posts
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http://www.agi.it/italy/news/200802041723-cro-ren0067-art.html
ITALY
“BIN LADEN JR IN ITALY: I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT THE VATICAN”
(AGI) - Rome, Feb 4
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Omar Bin Laden stays in a hotel in the centre of Rome with his wife.
Yesterday he had dinner in a hotel close to the Vatican, after that he said he wanted to return to Italy to visit Vatican City.”
bttt
Ping to developing important thread:
My school just made an announcement on the public address: All after school activities (including meetings and parent conferences) are cancelled. All students AND staff are to exit the building and go directly home. Even night school! That never happens. Something weird is going on. A few hours ago, the school made another announcement to keep all students out of the hallways. They say that only when there has been an “incident” that doesn’t rate a “code red” alert. Sometimes orders like this come from downtown.
My students are on their cell phones, now. One is reporting similar problems in New York City from relatives that are contacting family here in Miami. Widen the focus. Check other cities. Somebody link this post over to the Threat Matrix. I have to calm my students.
174 posted on 02/26/2008 2:23:53 PM CST by ExSoldier
Rumor ALERT! My wife’s school is out and they’re holding class outside under shade trees. My wife has old friends of her family high up in FP&L.
“Scuttlebutt” (from some pretty informed sources) has it that something has happened at the Turkey Point nuclear power plant and that “something” is somehow connected to the guy who tried to flee police from Miami International airport yesterday, who was found to have five passports on him after he jumped from the upper deck to the lower and busted his arm and some ribs. Pretty sure he’s a muzzie.
The spin machine is running at full speed on local tv and says that a huge transformer near the Turkey Point plant was knocked out by a storm. That smells to me. Local transformers in neighborhoods are certainly vulnerable to things like that. It has been windy, but nothing near strong enough to hurt something like that. Near a nuke plant? Big enough to route power to other parts of the state? Nooooooo way, IMHO. Something is going on here.
Threat Matrix! Get cracking on this one. Beat the bushes (so to speak) and see if maybe we’ve been HIT. I’m still stuck in my classroom without any tv service. I’m cutoff and isolated. By all appearances, traffic lights are out all over the county. I have to go to the VA and then home this afternoon. It’s gonna be a dangerous nightmare to travel. Got no choice.
118 posted on 02/26/2008 1:54:50 PM CST by ExSoldier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1976584/posts?page=118#118
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1976584/posts?page=174#174
