« on: May 15, 2013, 09:41:50 PM »
A film on the current situation in Afghanistan, a peek into the fruition of over a decade of "Nation Building".
http://www.vice.com/vice-news/this-is-what-winning-looks-like-full-lengthSo, what I've learned: Nation Building is the trading of one brutal regime that believes in the Koran for another brutal regime that believes in Uncle Sam's checkbook... for the time being
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both"