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Hi,
Been trying to educate myself a bit about Afghanistan. The country is in a
dire strait after the war with Russia. Women in particular are at risk. The
following link is to a poem written by a woman who founded a woman's rights
movement. She was eventually killed by the KGB. In our eagerness to punish
the terrorists I hope that we will not forget the lessons of Hitler's
rise -- the severe and unremitting punishment of Germany for WWI led to
conditions in Germany that made the people long for someone like Hitler to
deliver them
http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/ill.htm
Horrible conditions can lead to someone who fights for human rights (like at
least at first glance it seems this woman was) or they can lead to desperate
people with little regard for innocent life. Not an excuse for what was
done, but looking to understand a human being who would do such a thing --
to say that they are not human is a fantasy as any casual look at history
will prove.
Killing lots of terrorists, while satisfying in a basic sort of
eye-for-an-eye way, may not solve our problem if the breeding grounds of
desperate acts continue. Need to differentiate between terrorists,
governments
that support them, and the people which may not support their government.
Don't think there's any easy solution.
Here's some info on Bin Laden
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/binladen.profile/index.html
Brian
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