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To: Neocon who wrote (250993)	4/25/2002 3:04:06 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The books "prodded students to tackle basic math by counting dead Russians and Kalashnikov rifles" Basically, helping young children to love the Culture of Death. From the Wall Street Journal: wsjclassroomedition.com "The near collapse of public education in Pakistan and Afghanistan -- and the corresponding rise in influence of the madrasahs -- are critical legacies of more than two decades of Cold War proxy battles and subsequent armed strife in this region. In the 1980s, the U.S. supported the mujahedeen resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan by pumping billions of dollars into that country through Pakistan's intelligence service. But when the Soviets retreated in 1989, the U.S. and other Western governments invested relatively little in promoting civil institutions such as education. Militant Muslims eagerly stepped into the vacuum, and their madrasahs educated many of the taliban who went on to form the movement of that name which now rules Afghanistan. At least one education program the U.S. did sponsor probably did little to break the culture of violence that envelops children here from an early age. The Agency for International Development paid the University of Nebraska $50 million over eight years, from 1986 to 1994, to produce educational materials for Afghan primary- and secondary-school students. But texts on a range of subjects were highly politicized and often had a militaristic overtone, Tom Gouttierre, director of the university's Center for Afghan Studies in Omaha, now concedes. Some questions prodded students to tackle basic math by counting dead Russians and Kalashnikov rifles." Also, it is reported elsewhere, tanks and landmines. Cool, huh? Is this what you want your CIA spooks to use your tax dollars for -- do you agree with this?