We are seeing terrorists who are intent on killing people and continuing to oppress their own women. This is working.
The key to both problems is education. If you educate the people, they can create new businesses and opportunities for their families. Look at any country that has a high standard of living and they all have high levels of education.
The internet is changing people in all countries. Now some people can shortcut government media control and go to blogs to get the real picture.
Saudi Bloggers Shatter the Kingdom's Silence and Censorship
While the kingdom's 15 daily newspapers and many magazines are created by royal decree and subject to government censorship, the World Wide Web offers Saudis a vast, relatively unregulated new frontier of self-expression about sensitive political, economic, and social topics. While most Arab newspapers tend to follow the lead of their state-run news agencies on whether to publish stories on sensitive issues, the estimated 5,000 Saudi blogs have given the more than 6 million Saudis who are online an outlet not only to vent their considerable frustrations, but a place to press for political and social change.
The blogs are getting the word out to the people, we have seen this in Iran with the protests. These are educated people and as that 6 million number grows, so to will the power of the people. It is hard to keep oppressing a people who understand what is going on around them.
Unfortunately, terrorists use people's lack of education to brainwash them to their cause.
We need our troops to keep Canada safe, but we also need to educate the people of Afghanistan so that they can have the power to fight the Taliban with words and knowledge.
Education is the key.
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You are definitely right about education. Oh, BTW our national anthem is "O Canada" not "Oh Canada." *snicker* *snicker*
Education is only one half of the equation. The other is freedom. It doesn't matter how much education a person has if they can't start their own businesses, own property, etc. The shackles preventing people from rising above poverty can range from type of government (as in many communist countries) or over regulation and red tape (like in Haiti).
O Canada will not be changed.
O Canada will not be changed.
It was an effective pot stirrer, though wasn't it?
A standard negotiation technique. Give in on something you don't really care about so you can claim you are reasonable when you stonewall on something else.
Which is what the so-called 'lefties' have been saying all along.
What a '50s housewife wannabe you are. Welcome to 2010!
Well said Hunter. Education is important but the RIGHT kind of education is the key to success and the road out of poverty and ignorance.
To give you an example: In the muslim countries, students are not aware of a country called Israel as the maps in those countries do not show Israel and neither do the text books. When Jews are mentioned in text books, they are tarnished with the most horrible names and crimes. This is not education, although for all looks and purposes students in those countries would graduate and go on to become engineers, doctors and even heads of state. Did they have the right kind of education?
IMO, the right kind of education is important not the censored kind that is taught in the muslim countries.
terraderma, what a bigot (look up the definition) you are thinking that 50's housewives were inferior to you the 2010 woman.
Grow up, I bet you are all of 19 years old and in university on your parents dime. Never worked a job in your life and are taking artsy courses in university because you couldn't actually handle the stress of a real profession. How's that "modern dance" course going?
I respect the women of the 50's, they didn't have 2010 type careers, but they had the ability to stay at home and raise their children. If you ever have a child that you don't abort, you might understand that family wins over a career any day.
Hunter, terraidiot is just very lucky I have been doing taxes all day and haven't time to tell her a thing or 100 about those 50s housewives. She doesn't know about laws that prevented married women from working for the govt. She doesn't know that men expected to support their wives and families, and would be embarassed as hell if they couldn't. She is very lacking in education of how the real world works.
As for 1950's housewives, one of these liberal "lefties" actually wrote a dissertation, either in History or Political Science, if I recall, complaining that revolutionary communist groups in the 1950's had a policy of denying membership to housewives. Seems they wanted to recruit factory workers and students in that order. And thus the dissertation was full of righteous liberal indignation against the discrimnatory policies of subversive groups, that is revolutionary conspiracies seeking to overthrow the existing government, as if it was a matter of joining the Kiwanis Club. I can imagine the human rights complaint being filed, I want to join this revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow existing society and they have very selective and discrimatory recruitment practices and won't admit me.
Actually, SQ, both spellings are acceptable and accepted. What is it with lefties and their obsession with the inane and meaningless? Or are you just a fool, S trou de Q.
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