Building peace

I saw a video right now called building peace. It was about a man named Greg Mortenson. He tried to climb K2 but failed got sick and was nursed back to health in a small village were he vowed to return and help the people by making a school for girls. My personal opinion about this is mixed we are talking about changing a culture that has lasted though many ocupations from the most technologicaly advanced civiliztions in the world and faild. It is an enormous task of epic preporsions to try to change something of this magnitude. Sending troops to the middle east i think will just be a temperary soulution for a long term problem. in order to understand what the problem is you have to think like someone in the middle east. They are people who live and die by there religion and how do you get someone to change there beilf in there faith. It takes a greater understanding of there faith wich interms falls back on education.