Every little bit helps

So, three major terrorists are dead in Pakistan, from that famous air strike on the border with Afghanistan, you know the one, where there was a "major" failure of intelligence. Some intelligence, some failure - I can't stop channeling Winston Churchill these days - remember "some chicken, some neck"?

One of them had a price of five million on his head.

Unemployment is a problem in Afghanistan. That's one of the reasons violence has increased recently. Terrorists are getting paid after they persuade a suicide bomber to do their dirty work. Can't remember where I read it, but as a good little capitalist, that makes so much sense.

What they really need to do is set up a "crimestoppers" service - where you can phone a number anonymously, give information in exchange for a unique password, then if it turns out you helped zap a bad guy - well, your kids can buy text books and you can all drink clean water that week. Offer a good house rent free for a year - the phone would ring off the hook.

We have no idea how poor they are there. And we have no idea how grateful the women are that the Taliban has been overthrown. But I have an imagination and so do you.