Thanks to the Las Vegas Sun for publishing Nicholas Kristof’s column in Friday’s edition, “In Afghanistan, let’s give education a chance.” Mr. Kristof’s commentary mentions the work of Greg Mortenson, who has built 39 schools in Afghanistan and 92 in Pakistan and founded the Pennies for Peace program.
As a mom with a son in the military who is due home from Afghanistan next month, I recently discovered a possible prescription for the war — in “Three Cups of Tea,” about Mortenson’s adventures in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
For those saving pennies to put into a penny slot machine, it takes just one penny to buy a pencil so that a child can write in a desolate country such as Afghanistan.
I don't hear of many black people in this country lining up to go back to Africa so they can have their "freedom". Everyone in every country is indoctrinated, that is part of life.
What good will it do to send pencils to the children in Afghanistan, when as soon as the White House can find an excuse, they will pull our troops out and leave Afghanistan to the Taliban.
And you know what will happen to the schools when the Taliban is in control. It's history.../