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US politics and the allies are playing with the emotional side of the 
media to continue the economic control war, also called " terrorism".

War reality is terribly rational and deals with petrol and weapon 
business more than "Holy War".
Never allows emotions overwhelm rationality.

I have read this in one of the list and I think is a good testimony 
about the Afghan situation.

dg


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>>Subject:  A view from Afghanistan
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>>A sobering essay forwarded by a UC Berkeley professor:
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>>Dear Friends,
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>>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.
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>>Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread:
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>>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."
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>  >Tamim Ansary
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