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Note #26 by defran posted at Tue Sep 18 18:04:45 2001

Title: 'Holy War'

ok I know alot of you have strong issues as to whats going on. but I urge EVERYONE to read this letter, I encourage everyone to take a step out of their predetermind state of mind when you read this. It is very eye opening and to some it can be distrubing. I hope this letter will have some effect on you as to how you preceive your future on this planet and what you feel you must do to help create a peaceful planet for everyone we live with.
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

I received this in an email, and it has definitly awoken me to whats REALLY happening, but again it could only be the oppinion of one man, but I for one feel that his words are very powerful and will...most likly be overlooked by many billions of "westeners"

Defran
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