Afghan girls poisoned in second anti-school attack

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9. No, the fight over who PROVIDES this service, which is the KEY to winning a Civil War

The US ran across the same problem in Vietnam (And the Soviet Union when it tried to Control Afghanistan), a Civil War is always a Political war, and in modern society that means who provides SERVICES, including schools. Even in Vietnam, it was more important to make sure the School Teachers were loyal supporters of the South Vietnamese Government, then it was to kill Viet Cong Soldiers. The reason was simple, the teachers were dependent on the State for their Salary thus would be loyal to the State. The peasant farmers could be controlled by the State, for such peasant farmers wanted their children educated. Thus the best way to control the peasant farmer was to control the Teachers of their children.

This was also true of the Soviet intervention into Afghanistan, the Soviets made serious efforts to control education, when they lost that fight they pulled out.

It is happening again, the Taliban want to show that only the Taliban can provide a SAFE educational environment for the children of the peasant farmers of Afghanistan. Securing these schools is more important then killing Taliban fighters in the field, but Obama and his advisers, does NOT seem to understand that fact, thus why the US is losing the war against the Taliban.