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Originally Posted by dlish
ASU is kind of on the right path i think. However, what a ticket to Mecca costs is probably what these guys earn in 10 years. using that money to provide training to start businesses i think would be a better idea. having something to work for in order to run their businesses and keep their families fed would probably work. The only question is. how can this be implemented without a military presence?
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And how many of them have been to Mecca in the past 30 years? How many of them have traveled outside of Afghanistan or Pakistan? Do they even get news about Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Morocco?
The money issue is one small piece to this. As a US tax payer, I have spent enough to fly someone to Mecca and back. Just get Emirate Air to fly them, and have the Afghans doing the work. And I think it would be a cheap way to transition and pull back the US troops and reduce the weapons of the Taliban, while hoping that they will lead a peaceful Muslim life instead of a violent one by seeing that there are lots of other religious Muslim countries that the US is not in. It won't look like they surrendered, but that both sides can claim they won.
The US military, diplomats, and Afghan politicians need to come up with a clear plan and outline of what condition we want Afghanistan in. And I don't see it happening fast enough.