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description: From: Henry Subject: Re: Afghan-American speaks Date: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:03 PM haniba...@webtv.net (Anibal) wrote in message news:... > Afghan-American speaks > > Group: alt.discuss.clubs.public.issues.misc.proud americans Date: Thu, > Sep 20, 2001, 10:49am (EDT-3) From: WebG...@webtv.net (Goldilocks) > This was posted in another group, there are some opinions here that I > think are worth reading and thinking about. > - > - > - > An Afgani-American writes > > 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 ou…
creator: poseidon55
date: 2001-10-01T17:45:41-00:00