"S.V. van Baardwijk-Holten" wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:24:04 -0600, Dan Minette
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 9:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
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> > I appreciate your sincerity in this, but I'm curious as to why you think
> > that while an extremely modest effort (about $40 spent per person in
> > Afghanistan is as much as can be done) a massive effort will work in
> > Iraq.
> > It doesn't seem reasonable that a $200/per person (just under 6
> > billion/year) effort in Afghanistan will involve so much money the system
> > couldn't handle it.
>
> I'm not sure but from all the coverage we got from within the country I
> didn't get the impression that the iraqi people are undeveloped. They have
> a great deal of oppresion from above to deal with but most of them are
> literate and educated rather well by our standards. Even women have the
> possibility to achieve a high grade of education. So I think that the state
> Afghanistan is in,in no way can be compared to the state Iraq is in (will
> be in after Hussein).
Some infrastructure needs rebuilding in Iraq. This will take some money.
But I think that there wasn't really the infrastructure to *re*build in
Afghanistan, that there it's a "from scratch" kind of deal for the most
part.
As far as the people go, I think you're right.
Julia
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