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Originally Posted by crucifissio
trust me, when somebody drops 25.000 bombs/year on you, you do not have to try hard to find an angry person to fight it...I mean you are right, education is important everywhere but:
the thing about education is, and I know this from personal experience: when the bombs start dropping, all the educated moderates get silenced...there is nothing intelligent you can possibly say to influence people...now imagine decades upon decades of invasion and bombing...YOU would have a really really hard time bringing forward any western value or progressive message while the same west is dropping bombs on you...
muslims/islam/arabs/whatever KNOW what is right or wrong just like the west does...we are all homo sapiens and think alike...the problem is that their moderate views/voice is being taken away by bombs and invasions...YES education is important but it is powerless when stuff is being blown up around you for decades...
first the bombs have to stop...but this will not happen...$$$ needs to be made...
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i know what you mean but i have had an interesting experience 2 years ago when i was visiting Vietnam.
these dwarves with an average height of 1.45 meters tossed out the americans with stones and bamboo sticks and sacrificed millions of people for it.
nevertheless, nobody hates america or the americans. i have never seen a country in my life where technical schooling has reached the brains so well and political schooling so badly.
even though it's still a dictatorial communist regime today, a lot has changed. i'm sure in 10 or 15 years vietnam won't be communist anymore and it will go this way without blood and wars. simply because the people there are so eager to learn and have the education to know how to receive qualified information.
in vietnam time will repair it - in other countries where these learning possibilities are missing (like in many islamic states where people often can't even read or write) the way will be longer and harder, because we are not able (and for egoistic reasons not willing) to transport education there.
the problem of our time are the technical achievements we have made. in the past no country could destroy the world - in 10 years every banana state can. this raises completely different problems. there are only 2 ways with which mankind can survive.
1. a worldwide dictatorship that is forced with blood and war.
or
2. a global democracy that makes it essential to make compromises and take a step towards each other
The 3rd option is the complete destruction of the planet.
it is in our hands which of them becomes real