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Hmmm, sounds like the same old Left-Right hup hup hup hup....
Gentlemen, here's another view of the world and the intention of the Enemy
and ...... the land in which he lives.
I got this forwarded to me by my wife. Something to put into your mind and
think about with all this free time until the Market opens. Got to come up
with creative mind boggling solutions.
Best Regards,
Don Thompson
>Subject: [Fwd: Great article about afghanistan/taliban/bin laden]
One of our colleague posted the following article and it really shows
theplight of the real Afghans.
Regards,
Imran
Dear Friends,
The following was sent to me by my friend Tamim Ansary. Tamim is
an Afghani-American writer. He is also one of the most brilliant people
I know in this life. When he writes, I read. When he talks, I listen.
Here is his take on Afghanistan and the whole mess we are in.
-Gary T.
Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread:
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
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [RT] show your colors
>
> >> Sonny, I have a better idea. Why don't we throw the liberals out of
> >> office. How do you identify a liberal? It's easy:
>
> >> * they cut the military budget
> >> * ignore the absolute disaster in our immigration policy
> >> * force diversity down our throats
> >> * destroy our schools by increasing spending with all the
> >> money going to diversity and sex programs
> >> * seek to pacify and endlessly negotiate with our enemies
> >> * and politicize every issue instead of thinking what's best for
> >> America.
>
> >> I love this country, but I'm disgusted with the jerks we send to
govern
> >> us. Just look at this jerk Gary Condit, and I think he's a member of
or
> >> chairman of a defense committee. Ask yourself: why is this low-life
> >> still getting support from his constituents and many of his party
> >> members? Flying flags is an effort for a week, but paying attention to
> >> who we vote for is a full-time effort, and it's one we have to take
on.
>
> >> Ralph
>
> ralph, before you blow a gasket, a reminder or two:
>
> (1) one of the "jerks" that govern us approved $43 million in aid to
> afghanistan & the taliban just a few months ago. it's a simple
> web search. guess who it was?
>
> (2) we have something called voting in this country. you have exactly
> ONE of them. the rest of the people in this country likewise each
> have one.
>
> - *lk
>
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