The Key is Education

To follow up my thoughts that education is the key to the terrorist problem Maj K has a post on the problems of trying to teach the Iraq military how to soldier.

Iraq is a third world country. While this is not a surprising fact to most people, it seems as if this little fact is lost on too many people with access to microphones. It was a third world country before the 1991 Gulf War. It was a third world country before Saddam was removed from power. It will likely remain that way for some time to come. Evolving out of the “third world” category is not a rapid process. It involves much more than merely economics. It also involves, culture, rule of law and widespread education.

Go read and start to understand some of the problems. Read the comments – there is some wisdom there as well.