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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Interesting Sentences

I found these to fit the title:

Yet according to the CIA World Factbook, the median age in Afghanistan is
17.6. The culture is old, but the population is a teenager. Most Afghans today
probably had not reached puberty when al-Qaeda launched the 9/11 attacks. Eight years later, Afghanistan is more an illiterate kid than a country. The median
age in the U.S. is 36.7. In addition to the tremendous societal disconnect
between Americans and Afghans, there would be a generational gap even if those
distant children were Americans.

The writer, Michael Yon, then goes on to say we (America) should "adopt' Afghanistan, essentially committing ourselves to raising the country for 20 years. That's one hell of a commitment. Will America and the world really be safer by a long-term commitment in Afghanistan? Can we afford it fiscally? Will we make things better or worse there with our large and extended presence? Yon did not answer these questions satisfactorily.

# posted by Floyd Waterson @ Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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