We should be blowing up Iraqi schools, but we are building them.
That would make sense if we were at war with Iraq.
We are supposedly not at war with Iraq because we are nation building, trying to create an Iraqi nation, and blowing up schools is no way to build a nation.
We should not be trying to build an Iraqi nation, because Islamic moderates in Iraq only have a plurality, not a majority. Similarly, Karzai is not an Islamic moderate.
We should not be trying to build nations, because no one knows how to build nations, while everyone knows how to break nations.
People forget how thorough and drastic the pacification of Germany was. We did not let Nazis or neo Nazis retain any power, or organize, or preach, and we certainly did not allow them to form political parties and participate in elections. We purged every Nazi from every form of organization and association in Germany. We should not have allowed radical Muslims to retain any power, or organize, or preach, let alone participate in Iraqi elections. As long as any religious Muslim retains any coercive power, any political power, as long as people who preach the kind of Islam that disturbs us are still masters of their mosques, Iraq is still our enemy.
No preacher who rejects separation of mosque and state should have been allowed to preach, no congregation that rejects separation of mosque and state should have been allowed to assemble.
Because we failed to de-Islamize Iraq the way we de-Nazified Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan are still our enemies, as will become obvious a few years down the road.
If purging them of radical Islam is too horrifying and bloody, and I rather think it might me, then that does not necessarily mean we should make war on them until we so impoverish them as to render them incapable of doing us harm, but we certainly should not be providing them with aid. If purging them of Islam is more bloody than we are willing to do, then making them into allies rather than enemies is more bloody than we are willing to do.