According to UNICEF,
school attendance in Iraq is dropping:
Many schools in Iraqi cities and towns, which have been plagued by fighting and bomb attacks, have been closed, preventing hundreds of children from receiving basic education.
This supposed achievement of the invasion and occupation is a red herring. Opening of schools is not leading to the spread of education, certainly not in the sense that it is reaching new children. Part of the problem is that schools are closing because of the violence. However,
the security of Iraq and the success of education are linked. It is not enough that the US puts money into schools; it must also provide a safe environment for learning, both inside and outside the school.
Even without the violence, education in Iraq has not recovered to levels pre-2003: the number of children who went to school was already high. Revision of the ideological content of the curriculum have no doubt improved. However, success in education is better served by giving necessary skills to students than educating a few in "right thinking."
[Edited for geography 4/26]
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Last year,
Geek Lethal brought an article to my attention. It came from an English-language newspaper from the Middle East. It advanced an incredible argument: that the last Columbia mission tested an experimental weapon for the Israeli Defense Force that could create and control weather for offensive purposes. The destruction of Columbia was divine intervention and retribution.
The recently-released images of coffins arriving at Dover AFB will inspire those with particular tinfoil hats. The Franfuerter Allgemein is reporting that some of the photos are of the
remains of the Columbia astronauts from last year, not just of recently returned remains from Afghanistan and Iraq.
