The "war on terror," brought to you by Lyndon Johnson by Lawrence Auster

According to an absorbingly interesting article in the July 16 New York Times (which for once I actually purchased and read on paper), the U.S. has a five-year, $750 million program aimed at--get your Digitalis out--raising living standards in the mountainous region of Pakistan bordering on Afghanistan, where the Taliban and al Qaeda are centered. It is one of the most backward, primitive, dangerous, and Islamo-intensive areas of the world, and we think that spending money on water treatment, hospitals, roads, and schools will make the people in that area more resistant to Islamic extremism. The area is so wild and lawless that the Pakistan government has virtually no sway there, and even the people involved in designing the program fear that most of the money will just go to enriching local warlords. But we're doing it anyway.

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