UPDATE POST: September 17, 2010
I am happy to hear of a Voice of America program remarkably similar to the one I called for in my last paragraph below, starting with 20,000 radios in remote areas of Afghanistan. I can hardly take credit for the program but it sure seems like the right thing to do and I extend my congratulations and best wishes to those involved in its launch and future success.
ORIGINAL POST: February 10, 2010
I recommend total withdrawal of NATO & western forces from ME altogether - keep quick-strike whack-a-mole capability to ensure flow of oil while retool the west to get off ME oil dependency. Leave the ME to fight among themselves, policed by Russia, India, China & Israel.
Western counties will do much better with 10,000 clandestine feet on the ground than with half-a-million heavily equipped military getting their asses kicked daily by asymmetrical forces. The quick-strike capability is in the carrier battle-groups that already cruise those waters. Every nation needs its equivalent of Homeland Security in perpetuity.
There should also be a relentless information campaign - drop millions of easily-hidden wind-up radios w/ his & her earbuds (one each so while couples listen together they can still hear the fundamentalist thugs coming) and broadcast powerful radio programs 24 X 7 in their local dialects. Airdrop books by the millions - and flood them by radio with info: how to read, do math, basic healthcare, agricultural techniques, human rights, womens' rights, political pluralism & democracy, basic economics, world news. Make it relentless, easy to understand and universal and for decades. That will work much better than sending in the Marines.
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