they offer scholarships for the best pupil. he continues, what i don t see is similar numbers of american-backed schools. it break misheart that we don t invest in schools as much as medieval extremists. end of his speech. then he goes on to say, for roughly the same cost as stationing 40,000 troops in afghanistan for one year, we can educate the great majority of the 75 million children worldwide who are not getting even a primary education. such a vast global education, he says, would reduce poverty, cut birth rate, improve america s image in the world, promote stability, and chip away at extremism. madam speaker, i hope that president obama will keep this in mind as he reviews his options on afghanistan and makes his decision in the coming weeks. america simply cannot afford to rely on our military s power alone because that strategy plays right into the hands of the extremists. our heavy military footprint is beating the insurgency is feeding the insurgentcy in afghanis