Well said Jemian. Christian missionaries have made a huge difference in Kurdistan - the merest tip of the iceberg being the number of people they have taught english to. They will make a difference in Afghanistan as well.
Some of you haven’t been paying attention for the last six years. Unless Islam is replaced with something else the Coalition forces have achieved nothing.
Well said. A LOT of people - even [I daresay] the majority of the posters in this forum - haven't been "paying attention" for the last six years.
The very fact that we failed to "replace Islam with something else" in Iraq, dooms our efforts there to failure when we eventually must leave. I realized the day that Islam was codified by the Iraq constitution as their state religion, it was very likely that all our efforts there will prove for naught.
- John