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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
Until the muslim masses gain enough common sense to throw their religious leaders under the bus, I think the US should do anything and everything it can to keep people like Musharraf in power.
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"We will do x until people learn that we don't want to do x".
You should perhaps brush up on your logics. How do you suppose educating them is going to make these countries less hostile towards the west, if what they will be learning at school is that the west is hostile towards their attempts at building democracies (and as an extension, hostile towards their religion, their way of life and generally their rights as human beings and members of an independent nation)?
Or to put it in another way, instead of being nice from a position of power, you want to wait until the economical gap has narrowed (pretty tightly connected with mass education) and then start acting nice, hoping they're willing to forgive and forget once they have a better chance at getting back at you?
I think you need more education than they do. "Killing, torturing and imprisoning people as a way of governing the uneducated masses" is not exactly a sound ethical (or logical) foundation for fixing things in the world.