Posted on 07/25/2009 12:47:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
Iraq Plans to Send 10,000 Students to Colleges in U.S., Abroad
July 25, 2009
WASHINGTON — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says his country plans to send up to 10,000 Iraqi students a year to colleges in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia over the next five years as a part of a new scholarship program.
Al-Maliki says stability in Iraq has allowed the country to focus on education after years of war.
He says there's great ambition behind the new program "because our needs are great."
The Iraqi government is funding the scholarship program. It will allow students to earn bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees.
The country plans to start with about 500 students in U.S. and British schools this fall.
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You ignorant idiot. Why do you bother posting?
Don’t waste your intellect and time on an idiot!
This is college, OW ... those things are taught in US public middle schools .. by college, it’s long past.
Actually, I think this is a very good idea. The Iraqi government is paying their tuition, so that’s not an issue.
These students will be the best and brightest of their country, and the leaders of Iraq in future generations. I’d prefer people holding leadership positions overseas have a US educational background (i.e., Bibi) and good feelings toward the US from having lived here temporarily.
These will be students who can come here ONLY because they were freed by Americans, Brits, Aussies, Canadians, etc., and they KNOW it (unlike too many of their US counterparts). They start from a good pro-US position.
Actually, I’ve always thought one of the reasons Bush chose to go into Iraq was because it has one of the more advanced cultures in the Middle East, with a history of successful education and business enterprises that could be built on after being rid of Heussein.
Yes, and then they take the Engineering and Mathematics knowledge back to their home countries, and compete against Americans, sending the same rah-rah crowd into fits.
But you're right, we might be lucky and have them all becoming geologists.
On second thought, that would be too cruel to wish upon anyone.
Before you start calling names, we and the world have all witnessed the barbaric cultures of muslims- suicide bombings, honor killings, mass murder on a global scale etc. Their religion, rituals, dress, and habits are fundamentally at odds with western civilization. More need not be said. Iraq at this time is neither free nor democratic. We have shed blood to free it from its tyrannical grip. Let them now develop their own colleges and universities.
This would make for an informative read:
http://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/0895260387
If your point is that the Catholic church did a lot for civilization, you won’t here an argument from me. However, they also did a lot of very horrible things in the name of God. Of course, it was hundreds of years ago.
Iraq, having been largely a secular society for decades is more culturally advanced than a lot of the Middle Eastern countries. And now, with a few years of direct American influence, they are becoming more-so. They tend to dress like we do, they watch American TV shows and movies dubbed in Arabic, they listen to our music and they pick up American slang.
Wearing a hat or T-shirt that depicts an American sports franchise is a mark of prestige in Iraq.
There is a guard who works at a checkpoint in Baghdad who wears a cowboy hat and swaggers around, much to the admiration of his peers.
The nightclubs and bars are lively here now that the security situation has improved.
Don't tar all Iraqis with that Terrorist Brush. They've lived with terrorism for the past few years and hate terrorists as much as we do.
Happy to see their is intelligence in this thread and people realize that this is a good thing
Education is the key to defeating terror over the long term. Education is the key to making Iraq live up to the vision the We the People of the United States have for it, and paid for with our treasure and lives.
To “free” them and now allow them to be educated so they can improve their society, build their own roads, power plants and universitites is absurd.
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