Re: АмерАклийчета,, четете ли Инглиш? / Горещи теми / Тероризъм

I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the> >
> > Stone Age." Ron 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 deeply hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. My> >
> > hatred comes from first hand experience. There is no doubt in my mind> >
> > that these peo! ple 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, exha! usted, 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 would not 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 t! he 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?> >
> > Unfortunately, Bin Laden does. Anyone else?> >
> > In Peace,
> >

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