Comments on: Fighting for their education

By: Ann Ivins

Ann Ivins — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:54:01 +0000

You know, I just remembered being in high school and watching footage of the Mujahideen, thinking how great it was that they’d managed to kick the Soviets out despite their enormous army, etc. Little did I know…

By: qy

qy — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:03:31 +0000

Your daughters are amazing, I’m happy for you. We’re all pretty blessed, indeed.

By: Ann Ivins

Ann Ivins — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:44:19 +0000

That is one hell of a blog. Thank you for posting it and for having the unbelievable guts to write it.

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:31:02 +0000

Great blog you maintain, M Wagar. Please visit Scholars & Rogues again.

By: M Waqar

M Waqar — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:35:25 +0000

Its really heartbreaking that so called religious fanatics and thugs are destroying future of younger generation.Those thugs are ignorant,they can’t write even their names.They have no right to stop girls from going to schools,World community should take stronger action against these criminals.
http://pukhtunkhwatimes.blogspot.com/ (News Reports from the areas where Taliban are destroying future of everyone.)

By: Lex

Lex — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:34:11 +0000

Remember, we poured money into the radical groups that would be come the “Taliban” (a terrible simplification that does no justice to the complicated situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan) to stop the Soviets from secularizing Afghanistan and letting girls go to school. Ah, the good old days when the radicals we must now fight in the name of freedom were good, wholesome freedom fighters.

What can we expect from a generation raised on textbooks printed right here in the USofA that taught arithmetic through the visual aids of AK-47′s, dead Russians, etc. and taught those lessons in religious schools founded with US taxpayer monies?

And considering that the current plan for “doing something” is to give money and guns to these same groups again (so long as they promise to be friendly), we’re likely to be as successful as we were the first time around.