Op-Ed Columnist: 30 Little Turtles
Friedman's geopolitical take on outsourcing American jobs. He's right, but India is an intelligent nation because it favors and promotes education for its people. Most Arab nations sponsor the madrassa style of education which fails to equip young people for today's world. This medieval approach fails its citizens and moves their countries backward, not forward like India.
Dare we say that British colonialism may have played some small part in this different Indian way of thinking? Some of China is moving in this direction, too, without a colonialist background.
The world must confront for the next generation at a minimum the Islamic failures. The removal of Saddam from Iraq may provide a glimmer of hope for freedom and productive self determination if they can get their act together.
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