They want better life and better opportunities. When wester countries can have enough money to bomb the shitmout of them, surely then can also have money to invest there. Rebuild a good tolerant society. Set up schools, medical facilties. Just like how US used marshal fund. W countries can also ask other Arab countries to make contribution too. It is afteer all in everyone's interest. Nobody likes to leave their home. But when your home has been bombarded by NATO jets, when you see battle hardened people openly recruiting people. You are left with two options. Either to join them or leave for better shores. One should not forget how Europeans came to Africa duringnworld war 2 to escape the war. Exactly same way these people are leaving. Tret them once like human and trust me no one would leave their shores
Way I see it, Western intervention in these countries will have to be in stages. It is a long-term project that will require sequential investment in capacity building.
First, will come investment in education, healthcare, security and rule of law. That is the basis of everything. Next, there is the need to invest in infrastructure, by which one can mean public transportation, energy, digitization - whatever flies in a rapidly changing world. This is the scaffolding on which commerce is built. Finally, invest in business and commercial activities. I see no point in leading one before the other.
There are two caveats though. First, all of this cannot take place unless, atleast for the first few years, there isn't a strong military presence. The entire initiative will collapse because the first strongman who can take it down will do so. And yet, paradoxically, that will amount to the same situation of infidel occupation of Muslim land that provokes much of terrorism we see today. That is quite a challenge. Second, the education system that will bear fruit cannot be a mish-mash of delusional religious indoctrination with a sprinkling of modern concepts. It has to be cutting edge and it has to be secular. Without that, we will be back to square one in no time. The potential for conflict today in the Islamic world is not highest in countries where students study in Madrasahs, but in nations where a modern curriculum has been doctored to serve some dubious balancing act.
Whichever way we look at it, it is a generational challenge. It ranks as one of the top four things on the world's to-do list, along with getting rid of nukes, tackling climate change and adjusting to the reality of a world where technology will make most jobs redundant, leading to mass unemployment.
