Afghanistan
Total Population = 32,738,376
Population Under the Age of 15 = 44.6 percent
Median Age = 17.6 years
Life Expectancy at Birth = 44 years
Literacy = 21.8 percent

Canada
Total Population = 33,212,696
Population Under the Age of 15 = 16.3 percent
Median Age = 40.1 years
Life Expectancy at Birth = 81 years
Literacy = 99 percent

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These two countries have roughly the same population. Afghanistan has far more children to educate than Canada. Afghanistan would therefore require far more schools to be built than have been built in Canada. And those schools would require far more teachers to run them.

Roughly triple the number.

Without education these "children" will have no future. They will not have the qualifications needed to support a modern industrial infrastructure. They will fall back on agricultural subsistence to survive. On Opium and terrorism.

This long-term threat (uneducated children) are contained in developed countries - by the schools - where they are forced to attend from age of 5 until they reach 18 or graduate high school. The threat is contained in this way. There is no such containment in Afghanistan.

We can beat back the Taliban, Al Quaida, and anyone else. But what should we do about the kids? Is it our problem? Comments?