the battle for "the soul of Islam":
our foreign policy geniuses are promoting the guardianship of the jurisprudent. If America didn't have an enemy it would have to invent one, and Bush's nuevo-America can never have too many enemies.
Related: in Afghanistan - longtime beneficiary of USAID educational programs and where "[a]lmost 1,800 people have been killed in attacks by Taliban, drug barons and operations by foreign forces this year" - "11 explosions and 50 school burnings" have kept 100,000 chidren home from school in the south.
your turing test:
Oil for Nothing:US Holds On Humanitarian SuppliesIraq: 1997-2001
the good book and other cultural artifacts