Ever wonder why there are so many reports of Afghan children knowing nothing but war and and killing? Well, of course, they've lived with it all their lives -- but they were also taught it using US-supplied textbooks. In the 1980s, the US Government explicitly ignored the constitutional prohibition of promoting any specific religion and made textbooks for Afghanistan that were full of fundamentalist Muslim tenets, talked of jihad against unbelievers, and taught to count with pictures of rifles and tanks.

Fundamentalism doesn't always turn out the way you'd like, of course, and now the US is trying to replace the textbooks with non-military ones -- but still teaching Muslim tenets. Somehow the people in charge think that spending US resources to teach religion in other countries is permissible.