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Tamim Ansary, a writer living in San Francisco whose father is a former Afghani politician, e-mailed a letter on September 14 2001 to a few friends, who passed it on to the rest of the world: "Dear Friends, Yesterday I heard a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio 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," and he asked, "What else can we do? What is your suggestion?" Minutes later I heard a TV pundit discussing whether we "have the belly to do what must be done." And I thought about these issues 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 been going on over there. So I want to share a few thoughts with anyone who will listen. 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 NewYork. I fervently wish to see those monsters punished. 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 captured Afghanistan in 1997 and have been holding the country in bondage ever since. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a master 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 love for someone to eliminate the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their country. I guarantee it. Some say, if that's the case, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban themselves? The answer is, they're starved, exhausted, damaged, and incapacitated. A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan -- a country with no economy, no food. Millions of Afghans are widows of the approximately two million men killed during the war with the Soviets. And the Taliban has been executing these women for being women and have buried some of their opponents alive in mass graves. The soil of Afghanistan is littered with land mines and almost all the farms have been destroyed . The Afghan people have tried to overthrow the Taliban. They haven't been able to. We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age. The trouble with that scheme is, it has already been done. The Soviets took care of that. 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? There is no infrastructure. Cut them off from medicine and health care? Too late. Someone already did all that. New bombs would only land in 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 (they have already, I hear). 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 be making common cause with the Taliban -- by raping once again the people they've been raping all this time. So what else 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. I think that when people speak of "having the belly to do what needs to be done" many of them are thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed. They are thinking about overcoming moral qualms, about killing innocent people. But it's the belly to die, not kill, that's actually on the table. Americans will die in a land war to get Bin Laden. 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. 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. The invasion approach is a flirtation with global war between Islam and the West. And that is Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants and why he did this thing. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. At the moment, of course, "Islam" as such does not exist. There are Muslims and there are Muslim countries, but no such political entity as Islam. Bin Laden believes that if he can get a war started, he can constitute this entity and he'd be running it. 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 Muslim lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose, even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably wrong about winning, in the end the West would probably overcome -- whatever that would mean in such a war; but the war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden yes, but anyone else? I don't have a solution. But I do believe that suffering and poverty are the soil in which terrorism grows. Bin Laden and his cohorts want to bait us into creating more such soil, so they and their kind can flourish. We can't let him do that. That's my humble opinion. Tamim Ansary" P.S. (received by the wizard several days later) Bomb them with Butter... A military response, particularly an attack on Afghanistan, is exactly what the terrorists want. It will strengthen and swell their small but fanatical ranks. Instead, bomb Afghanistan with butter, with rice, bread, clothing and medicine. It will cost less than conventional arms, poses no threat of US casualties and just might get the populace thinking that maybe the Taliban don't have the answers. After three years of drought and with starvation looming, let's offer the Afghani people the vision of a new future. One that includes full stomachs. Bomb them with information. Video players and cassettes of world leaders, particularly Islamic leaders, condemning terrorism. Carpet the country with magazines and newspapers showing the horror of terrorism committed by their "guest". Blitz them with laptop computers and DVD players filled with a perspective that is denied them by their government. Saturation bombing with hope will mean that some of it gets through. Send so much that the Taliban can't collect and hide it all. The Taliban are telling their people to prepare for Jihad. Instead, let's give the Afghani people their first good meal in years. Seeing your family fully fed and the prospect of stability in terms of food and a future is a powerful deterrent to martyrdom. All we ask in return is that they, as a people, agree to enter the civilized world. That includes handing over terrorists in their midst. In responding to terrorism we need to do something different. Something unexpected. Something that addresses the root of the problem. We need to take away the well of despair, ignorance and brutality from which the Osama bin Laden's of the world water their gardens of terror. __________________________ The following communication was received from our client, colleague and well-known author in energy medicine, Joy Gardner. Dear Friends: The following very important letters about Afghanistan came to me via Jonathan Goldman and Don Campbell. From: [email protected] (New Dimensions Radio) From: [email protected] (Justine Toms) Thanks for your piece. Please look at this one. Dear ones, I sent the following piece to Bob Fuller to see what he had to say about it. He was part of a peacekeeping mission that was first into Afghanistan after the Soviets pulled out. He was a fellow at WorldWatch in Washington D.C. and he was a former president of Oberlin College, a physicist by training, an educator, and is the author of "Breaking Ranks: In Pursuit of Individual Dignity." His website is: <www.breakingranks.net> Love, What Bob Fuller said about this piece: JUSTINE -- WHO IS THE BRILLIANT ANALYST???? THAT PIECE IS EXACTLY RIGHT. I WAS CHEERING ALL THE WAY THROUGH. I HAVE BEEN THERE TWICE AND SHARE THAT VIEW WITH ONLY ONE SMALL EXCEPTION. I THINK THAT IN THE END PAKISTAN (MUSHARRAF) MAY DECIDE TO HELP US, LET US THROUGH, WHATEVER. THEY MAY EVEN COUGH UP BIN LADEN SO AS TO PREVENT SOME FIGHTING. IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL. I AM NOT SURE. I JUST THINK THAT THAT IS THE ONE POINT MADE BY THE WRITER THAT IS ARGUABLE. I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO THIS PERSON. A TOUGH-MINDED REALIST WITH REAL EXPERIENCE WITH TYRANNY. -- BOB The Piece: (see letter at top of this page) Don Campbell, INC 303-440-8046 ***** Note from Joy: I just saw a remarkable documentary called "Beneath the Veil" on CNN by Saira Shah, an investigative reporter from London, whose father grew up in Afghanistan. This incredible woman went, partly undercover, into Afghanistan to examine what was actually going on. The footage was completely in alignment with the previous letters, and I am so glad that the American people could see this presentation. Here are some notes I took about her presentation. I hope they are accurate. When Saira's father was a boy, Afghanistan was a liberal country. There were beautiful Pleasure Gardens where there was music and fruit trees. Then came a civil war which was very disruptive. After that, in 1996, the Taliban seized power, promising to bring law and order, security and jobs. Instead she says that they have done nothing to rebuild the cities that were flattened by the war. There is so much poverty! In the capital of Kabal women must wear complete veils and cannot appear in the streets without both a male and a female chaperone. Women cannot work, even if their husbands have been killed. Women cannot receive medical care. More women die in Afghanistan in childbirth than anywhere else. One in four children die before the age of five. Music is outlawed. There is no education for girls over 12, so some of the women teachers who are prohibited from teaching are conducting this subversive activity of teaching the girls who are over 12. They could hang for this. Prostitutes and anyone who disobeys the laws are hung in public, in the football field. This is supposed to bring pleasure to those who celebrate the true way. Boy children are raised with a wish to be martyred, from the age of 8 or 9. When Saira interviewed a group of boys who were being trained by the Taliban, they all expressed a desire to die for their cause. In the countryside there is a mosaic of ethnic groups who have lived peacefully with each other for centuries. These small ethnic groups are fighting the Taliban. When the men from these villages are captured, they are excecuted. Truly, this does not sound like a country that deserves to be bombed!! Instead it might be worthwhile to arm and join the peasants who are fighting against the Taliban. Sincerely, -- __________________________ |
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