“’Give every Afghan man a Macintosh computer and unlimited Wi-Fi bandwidth, and they’d be too busy watching porn to even think about becoming insurgents,’ one witty ex intel agent told me. And the numbers work. Instead of spending $12 billion a year training the Afghan police and army—about the annual budget of the Israel Defense Forces, including their air force and submarines—we could have bought a thousand-dollar computer for every adult Afghan (about twelve million people).”
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/ann-marlowe/winning-hearts-and-minds?utm_source=World+Affairs+Newsletter&utm_campaign=06bfdee996-Blog_Marlowe_Kara_Murza_Motyl_3_4_2013&utm_medium=email
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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