Smart Girls vs. Bombs
As I see it, after 9/11, we systematically overused military tools and underemployed two other kinds of tools — education and women’s empowerment. These work agonizingly slowly, but over time they help change societies.
.. Education is also a bargain. For the cost of deploying a single American soldier abroad for a year, we can start more than 20 schools.
.. So instead of pummeling each other on foreign policy, let’s look for lessons learned. Surely one of them is that to counter terrorists, sometimes a girl with a book is more powerful than a drone in the sky.