Food For Thought
Nov 2 2009
Recently read an interesting New York Times article. New York Times op-ed columnist NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF wrote an article entitled “More Schools, Not Troops“.
In it he writes,
“Dispatching more troops to Afghanistan would be a monumental bet and probably a bad one, most likely a waste of lives and resources that might simply empower the Taliban. In particular, one of the most compelling arguments against more troops rests on this stunning trade-off: For the cost of a single additional soldier stationed in Afghanistan for one year, we could build roughly 20 schools there.”