selamat membaca,
salam,
widya
ps: semua e-mail yang mencamtumkan kataa: us, afghan, ben laden.... (masih
banyak lagi) tidak lepas dari kuping elektronik cia dan konco-nya.
> Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread:
>
> 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 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, exhausted, 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 wouldn't 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 the 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? Bin Laden
> does. Anyone else?
> Tamim Ansary
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