If you don’t have the equal rule of law, a military that is dedicated to the people (in America that’s “We the People”), a civil service that is relatively corruption free, peaceful transfers of power after clean elections, and probably some other stuff (free elementary education? contracts? intellectual property…?), it’s foolish to TRY to establish STEAM (including the arts) programs and higher social goods.
It’s also really foolish to give the officials in that society a society lacking all those things a bunch of guns and training on how to use them because they said they saw Boko Haram in the bushes, which is what we did
I wasn’t privy to the details of the training, but the US military is very much couched in the military serving the people, so I would hope and expect that’s what any training we provided included. Maybe you have specialized knowledge that we just went in and gave them guns and taught them how to use the guns and fucked right off so they could start shooting bushes…?
It’s also really foolish to give the officials in
that societya society lacking all those things a bunch of guns and training on how to use them because they said they saw Boko Haram in the bushes, which is what we dide; better phrasing
I wasn’t privy to the details of the training, but the US military is very much couched in the military serving the people, so I would hope and expect that’s what any training we provided included. Maybe you have specialized knowledge that we just went in and gave them guns and taught them how to use the guns and fucked right off so they could start shooting bushes…?