Mike
2008-06-18 07:54:41
Joshua,
Maybe you didn’t read the second page – I think I addressed your concern:
‘It’s a bit of a stretch to start talking about Afghanistan as the Saudi Arabia of biofuels. And it might seem an unfortunate analogy, given the precarious position the west is in with its reliance on Middle East oil. The fact is that oil wealth has rendered a generation of young Saudis feckless and open to radicalization, and Saudi money is financing terrorism. However, in this case the Afghans would be producing the raw materials themselves rather than growing corrupt, idle and embittered while foreigners do all the work.’
I should add that, alongside whatever development programs the West pursues, I think we need to continue killing lots of bad guys.
