A Practical Plan for Pacifying Pakistan and
Afghanistan
The plans of the
U S and its allies that are intended to pacify Afghanistan are doomed to
failure unless the Afghans are able to realize substantial improvement in their
lives and in their living conditions.
Such military actions will succeed only if the majority of the Afghan
people understand and support the efforts that are planned. With adult illiteracy exceeding 85% in
females and 55% in males, informing and persuading the Afghans presents formidable
problems. Such wide illiteracy
severely inhibits the growth and development of the nationŐs economy, its
culture, and its natural resources.
At this time, the AfghansŐ primary enemy is not the Taliban – it
is the illiteracy.
Only through
an informed citizenry can Afghanistan become a healthy and self-sustaining
nation – a positive contributor to our planetŐs family of nations.
The Mudoc Corporation is proposing the development and operation of a
national information dispensary system (NIDS) in Afghanistan. Such a system is described in Chapter 3
of The Mu Primer, a textbook now being
prepared for publication by The Mudoc Corporation. That chapter is now available at http://mudoc.com/mpms3.htm. It describes how information technology
tools that are either now available – or, are just on the horizon –
can enable less-developed countries like Afghanistan, with a modicum of support
from the advanced nations, to move rapidly to full literacy.
Few nations are willing
to contribute substantial numbers of military troops to the forces now being
mounted in Afghanistan to subdue the Taliban and the other insurgents. But many nations are likely to offer to
provide monies, teachers, and technical assistance to help in developing and
operating the kind of national information dispensary system that is now
becoming feasible. As described in
The Mu Primer, information dispensaries
will serve as the schools and the libraries in the less-developed countries
until they are capable of building the costly kind of educational and library
systems now found in the advanced nations. With the charitable character of many of the wealthiest
nations, we could, within a few years, see many members of the [proposed]
International Reading Corps swarming around Afghanistan and helping deliver
literacy in large measure. One of
the primary missions of the Afghan and foreign military forces that will be
operating in Afghanistan could be to protect, to support, and to participate in
the construction and operation of the Afghan national information dispensary
system.
And the Afghanistan NIDS could become a prototype that might be
replicated in the other less-developed countries around the world.
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