[FreedomPoster]

You can’t civilize savages unless you are willing to crush them and take over the raising of the children. Which we are not willing to do.

Regarding Afghanistan, everyone should read Churchill’s The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. ~120 years ago, and very little has changed. It should have been required reading post-9/11 for everyone in DoD, the State Department, CIA, NSA, and intelligence services. The weaponry has changed, the outlook and education levels of the people living there not so much.

“The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War was an 1898 book written by Winston Churchill; it was his first published work of non-fiction.

The book describes a military campaign by the British army on the North West Frontier (now western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) in 1897. It is dedicated to General Bindon Blood.”

Free at Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9404

[Lorianne]

Thanks!
I will add it to my reading list.