Dolphie Bush wrote: > I would surmise that the ones eating the food rations we are > dropping are glad we are doing that.
In a land with 20,000,000 land mines some air dropped rations are a hazard to life, not an assistance. You like public relations, this would your bet. Your want to really assist people, this isn't the way, which is why Doctors Without Borders does not support this. Just to be international, here is a Canadian Doctors Without Borders Link that discusses this: http://www.msf.ca/ > I would feel safe in writing that the > Northern Coalition is most surely happy we are doing what we are and, wow, > they are native Afghans. > And wow, really wow, man, they are heroin dealers and anti-democrats who just happen to be the enemy of an enemy. The Northern Alliance is an ethnic coalition in essentially only the Takhar Province. I love the way so many people are suddenly real big fans of the Northern Alliance, something they never heard of six-seven weeks ago. The fact that they are today's enemy of enemy would place them in the same category of other enemies of enemies that short-perspective foreign policy in the past has supported, including that noted freedom fighter Osama bin Laden and that paragon of virtue Saddam Hussein. Loving my country it is very difficult to watch such lurching of support from one uninformed choice to another. For a look at perhaps the only decent part of the Northern Alliance, I would recommend the 22 October 2001 New Yorker article on Mamur Hassan. (the Rev) Vince
