I often disagree with Tom Friedman's analysis but in this case he nails it 6
It's time for the US to shift from supporting other regimes with weapons as we have done since the second world war and support educational initiatives instead. We'll do more to improve the lives of people in the middle east by teaching them to read than by giving fighter jets to their generals.
Unfortunately the chances of it happening are nil since we don't even do that here and our members of congress get far too much cash from the likes of Lockheed Martin
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=945640&f=28&sub=Columnist
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