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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (784442)	5/12/2014 10:43:00 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579450

<< Instead of putting hundreds of millions/billions into drones, put it to into educating the girls and you will combat the Taliban much more that way. Well of course we need to educate the girls. But the savages are going to react extremely negatively toward that.>> That is the point! <<Gotta give the girls security until these savages are no longer a threat.>> No they want education now and they are willing to take the risk to get it. So we do what we can. In Bangladesh right now they are educating more girls than boys, I think. In many African countries women are civilizing them right now. <<Because in the end, these savages aren't going to be deterred by girls knowing algebra. They're going to be deterred by free nations fighting for what's right.>. That is not nearly as powerful as the power of the pen!!! And sure the girls will beat them eventually because when one learns to think well, they become real dangerous to anyone who would do them or society harm. And the women are especially tough if educated because they are much more protecitive of the children. You educate the women and it is like giving them super powers, because once they learn to think they learn to mobilize and fight together and outsmart even superior forces and eventually bring the entire country down on the men who would control them. And they will run things for a change. You have it backwards on this one. Sorry, but you do. Look at Ayaan hersi Ali: raised in Somalia in a very strict Islamic culture, but learned to read English and then Nancy Drew books. Once she got going she educated herself to a master degree and won a seat in the Neatherlands parliament and is leading a revolution for women's rights. She had to leave the Neatherlands because of death threats and she spit in their face. <<And that's going to take more than just feel-good hashtag campaigns.>> Ask Ayaan if her efforts have been hashtag campaigns? Read her book! en.wikipedia.org