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Thanks Don, for sending the Ansary essay
Don Thompson wrote:
> 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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