the (rev.) wrote: > In a land with 20,000,000 land mines some air dropped rations are a hazard to > life, not an assistance.
Well, the folks I just saw eating them sure looked like they were assisted by them (and said so) and so were the ones who were hoarding them to sell to others. 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/ According to that link I think the wording was it isn't the best way to apply assistance.> > they are heroin dealers and anti-democrats who just > happen to be the enemy of an enemy. Anti-democrats? Is that bad? As far as heroin dealers, isn't that how the Taliban is running the government and supporting itself. The Northern Alliance is an ethnic > coalition in essentially only the Takhar Province. What pertinence that has I don't know. 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. Don't remember saying that I was a fan, much less a big one, of the Northern Alliance and as far as who has heard of them and when, well,.... You are not the only one that reads the issues. 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 ????????????????????????????? > Mack
