"For the cost of deploying one soldier for a year, we could start more than 20 schools."  And to protect those 20 schools, you would have to have several hundred soldiers to keep the Taliban from killing the students (particularly the girls) or their families.   Unless the leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan quit stealing the money being sent to fight the Taliban, nothing will change.  President Obama's good intentions to be out of Afghanistan by the end of this year were denied by the greed and obstructionism of our 'allies' there.