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Bocs, ha 1 kicsit hosszú, de mivel én teljesen 1et értek az itt leírtakkal, gondoltam megosztom Veletek ezt a mailt...
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> > Dear Friends,
> > The following was sent to me by my friend Tamim
> > Ansary. Tamim is an Afghani-American writer. He is
> > also one of the most brilliant people I know in this
> > life. When he writes, I read. When he talks, I listen.
> > Here is his take on Afghanistan and the whole mess we
> > are in.
> > - Gary T.
> > ----------------
> > 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
> > were 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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