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To: GST who wrote (128108)	4/1/2004 6:13:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

(or if we didn't care if they went home or not) it would not be politically or economically possible, and if it could be done it would cost a lot more then what we are spending In Iraq.> That is just loaded with assumptions -- most of which are pretty weak. It is loaded only with the assumption that you where serious when you talked about trying to educate half of the youth in the Middle East. Perhaps that was a weak assumption but you didn't make the point as a joke or with a grin or smiley. I suppose you could throw in the assumption that Americans would pay for the education but that seems to be a very strong one. Then there is also the assumption that the education would not be extremely cheap per person. This doesn't seem to be a weak assumption either considering that we would have to move them from their home country to the US and later back to their home, and that we would have to teach many of them English and/or hire teachers trained in Arabic and perhaps other languages. In addition you would want them to get a solid foundation in our ideas, this is not something that can happen in a seminar over a couple of weeks, it would more likely take years then weeks. And in many cases their governments or even the parents would not want the kid to be "indoctrinated" with such ideas. Another thing that would add to the costs is that we would have to hire a lot more teachers, to create the extra supply would take time and money. Education is by far and away our best foreign policy. Education isn't a foreign policy. Of course its a good thing but it is not the answer to all the worlds problems and most of the leaders around the world will be educated in the country where they where born. A massive attempt to move millions of people to the US to get educated simply isn't going to happen. It's not a practical idea. Tim