Greetings your Sheedness ;-)
Your points about Afghanistan are well made.
The more I have read about the plight of this nation the more my focus
shifts from terrorism (surely the effect) to the injustice and misery (at
least a contributing cause).
Fifteen years ago America was (through a minority group) funding and
protected members of the Provisional I.R.A (NORADE)
Something that has been quickly swept under the carpet...
Bin Laden surely joins that fraternity of monsters that the Doctor
Frankenstein of America helped to build. (Other members of the 'old friends
gone bad' gang are of course - Saddam Hussain, Ho Chi Min, Manuel Noriaga
and countless others whose infamy was possibly a subject only of local
concern).
I truely am an American. Thanks to the winning effects of American culture I
speak and think American. Thanks to a lifetime of American movies, books and
television many of the 'surface' values of the United States are also my
own.
I sincerely believe that the United States is the greatest nation on earth.
I do not think it is perfect. When I saw the recent poll results that said
that 96% of American's would be willing to enter a War to take revenge for
Tuesdays massacre I could only think of the lesson the Israelis are teaching
us on a daily basis. They recipricate every evil perpetrated against them.
The revenge killings keep the fires of terror fuelled they have never put
them out.
I recommend people check out the email on this page:
http://afghanistan-rg.de.vu/
Low quality social patterns in the form of a Hate mail, and the webmasters
response.
Mk
--M a r k L u c a s
l u c a s - d i g i t a l . c o m
----- Original Message ----- From: <HisSheedness@aol.com> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 1:55 AM Subject: Re: MD I am an American
> Everyone, > > Here is an account sent to me by a friend which may help all of you gain a > better understanding of the current situation in Afghanistan. > > > I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan > back to the > Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed > that this would > mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do > with this > atrocity, but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral > damage. What > else can we do?" Minutes later I heard some TV pundit > discussing whether > we "have the belly to do what must be done." > > And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard > because I am > from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 > years I've never > lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell > anyone who will > listen how it all looks from where I'm standing. > > I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. > There is no > doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the > atrocity in > New York. I agree that something must be done about those > monsters. > > But the Taliban and Ben Laden are not Afghanistan. They're > not even the > government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of > ignorant psychotics > who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political > criminal with > a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think > Bin Laden, > think Hitler. And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" > think "the > Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only that the > Afghan people > had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first > victims of the > perpetrators. They would exult if someone would come in > there, take out > the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international > thugs holed up in > their country. > > Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the > Taliban? The > answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, > suffering. A > few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are > 500,000 > disabled orphans in Afghanistan--a country with no economy, > no > food. There are millions of widows. And the Taliban has > been burying > these widows alive in mass graves. The soil is littered > with land mines, > the farms were all destroyed by the Soviets. These are a > few of the > reasons why the Afghan people have not overthrown the > Taliban. > > We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to > the Stone Age. > Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it > already. Make > the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their > houses? Done. > Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate > their hospitals? > Done. Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from > medicine and > health care? Too late. Someone already did all that. > > New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. > Would they at > least get the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, > only the > Taliban eat, only they have the means to move around. > They'd slip away > and hide. Maybe the bombs would get some of those disabled > orphans, they > don't move too fast, they don't even have wheelchairs. But > flying over > Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a strike against > the criminals > who did this horrific thing. Actually it would only be > making common cause > with the Taliban--by raping once again the people they've > been raping all > this time > > So what else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now > speak with true > fear and trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go > in there with > ground troops. When people speak of "having the belly to do > what needs to > be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to > kill as many as > needed. Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about > killing > innocent people. Let's pull our heads out of the sand. > What's actually on > the table is Americans dying. And not just because some > Americans would > die fighting their way through Afghanistan to Bin Laden's > hideout. It's > much bigger than that folks. Because to get any troops to > Afghanistan, > we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not > likely. The > conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will other > Muslim nations > just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting with > a world war > between Islam and the West. > > And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly > what he wants. > That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. > It's all right > there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It > might seem > ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into > Islam and the > West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the west wreaks a > holocaust in > those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to > lose, that's > even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably > wrong, in the > end the west would win, whatever that would mean, but the > war would last > for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. > Who has the > belly for that? Bin Laden does. Anyone else? > > Tamim Ansary > > > MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org > Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ > MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net > > To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: > http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html > >
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