How to reduce both taxes and terrorism.

Price to effectively improve Afghani schools over the next 5 years: 2.5 billion
Price of the (arguably) ineffective Iraqi War: 488 billion

How will improving Afghani schools help us? Today, TIME reminded me that "every social and economic index shows that countries with a higher percentage of women with a high school education also have better overall health, a more functional democracy and increased economic performance. There's another payoff that is especially important to Afghanistan: educated women are a strong bulwark against the extremism that still plagues Afghanistan...."

Now, let's think bigger! Let's pretend we improve 10 Middle-Eastern countries' schools for 10 years!

(2.5 billion) x (10 countries) x (2 segments)(5 years) = 250 billion, half the cost of the War in the Iraq that has gone on for 4 years.

I'm just saying.