On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:24:04PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > I appreciate your sincerity in this, but I'm curious as to why you > think that while an extremely modest effort (about $40 spent per > person in Afghanistan is as much as can be done) a massive effort will > work in Iraq.
I guess you left out "has not yet succeeded" or something similar. The answer is that I am also interested in how to help in Afghanistan, as I have stated here before. Any ideas? One idea I had was donating to UNICEF and asking that my donation be used for removing land mines in Afghanistan. Also, Afghanistan Children's Fund, http://kidsfund.redcross.org/. I'm still looking for something more nation-building oriented. > It doesn't seem reasonable that a $200/per person (just under 6 > billion/year) effort in Afghanistan will involve so much money the > system couldn't handle it. Agreed. > My personal belief is that Afghanistan offers a much easier test case > for a lot of things we could try in Iraq. I'll grant you that we will > take more control initially in Iraq, but having experience working in > a Moslem country should prove invaluable. So, that's my suggestion. Sounds like a good suggestion. I'd appreciate hearing any specific ideas you have! -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
