My point exactly Imi. Chuparustam and sidster tell the army trained 90k people take some of them out and leave them without a job then what do you think these people are going to do for survival. They are going to be another group of thugs with military training. As far as training the youth as doctors and engineers most of these people would leave the country and never show their face. With being in military and getting the education throgh that would make people loyal to country as well as become doctors and engineers. Also you guys talk if the education system of Nepal is like USA. Do you guys know how much it takes for education in Nepal? I dont think so. Tell me chuparustam you tell that army is not needed for helping people right and you say local people, students, professionals can help. Then tell me how many students have helped Nepal as of now. Tell me how many local people have come out to help their neighbor. Nepali people are not in place to help each other out. This is not a society that helps base on how much their people suffer. We don't care about each other at all. We are not western countries. Also when disaster strikes it strikes all at one. For example you know if there was a major earthquake to hit Nepal at least 35000 poeple would die and 5 times as many wounded. Now tell how many of these people are local people going to help and build temporary shelter for these people. Are you going to worry about yourself and your family or because have a humanity within you, you will desert your family and help people in need instead. Also what if the country goes through lets say a mojor earthquake, robbery, ethnic fighting, lets say someone like Prachanda comes again all at once. Tell me are your students, professionals, and local going to come out and help or save their own lives. Again I would like to say that people are rationalizing it based on short term effect and are not looking for long term effect. We don't look for future and make our decision based on rather take what we want and not know the consequeces for it later.