U.S. HELPS REWRITE AFGHAN SCHOOLBOOKS

"Afghanistan's.. education ministry has endorsed a new history curriculum for school students that deletes nearly four decades of the country's war-torn past... not much mention of (the Taliban) or the US-led forces that drove them from power and have stayed for more than a decade... the civil war and the Taliban regime had been wrapped up in just a few lines... US military officials say they had no discussions on content in the books, some of which were paid for with US money. But a spokesman for the US military in Kabul, David Lakin, added: ''Our cultural advisers reviewed the social studies textbooks for inappropriate material, such as inciting violence or religious discrimination."
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18579315

... TO COUNTERACT PREVIOUS U.S. SCHOOLBOOKS

"Taliban in Madrassas with texts our taxes designed.... Look up texts our taxes spawned at University of Nebraska Omaha. Hate texts, illegally pushing one established religion, and glorifying murderous warfare for Allah. Delivered to Afghanistan Taliban to create militant terrorists. The neocon plan was to aim them at "godless communists." Another "initiative" that started what we cannot now stop. No exit plan."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/23/260889/-School-Vouchers-create-Madrassas-here

"... during the presidency of Ronald Reagan — when all vision was still focused on the Cold War — the United States got itself into the business of sponsoring militant Islamic schools for Afghanistan, then a nation under the influence of the Soviet Union... The U.S. Agency for International Development was funding the foreign aid program that was essentially schooling this new generation of terrorists...
The plan: Flood rural Afghanistan with millions of schoolbooks preaching and teaching Islamic militancy. Books reportedly filled with language celebrating jihad (holy war), violent images of war... Primers from which boys learned math by counting pictures of soldiers, tanks, guns and land mines.
The purpose: Create a generation of militant Islamic freedom fighters — another term might be terrorists — who would rise up and run the godless Soviet communist forces out of Afghanistan. Which they did. Then they stuck around."
http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3453