The Logic Off Topic list

on 23/9/01 7:27 pm, GAmoore@... at GAmoore@... wrote:

> A job needs to be done, for the good of the world. And the US is willing
> to accept the loss of life of our soldiers, the economic costs, and the
> political costs. 

While you pat yourselves on the back, lots of us are sick to the stomach at
the thought of what is about to be done in our names.  And highly dubious
about what it will do to rid the West of the threat of terror.

> I am very much against the innocent being killed, but the US military is
> made up of moral individuals. Plus, most of the innocent are in refugee
> camps in Iran or Pakistan, or heading there at high speed now.

I am lost for words at this last couple of sentences.

Yesterday I listened to a report on BBC Radio 4 from their correspondent who
spent two years as one of the only Western reporters in Khabul (she was
ordered out of Afghanistan six months ago by the Taliban).  She was talking
about how she has spent the last few days on the phone to former friends and
sources in Afghanistan who are all petrified at thought of what is about to
happen to them.  None of them support the Taliban.  They can't understand
why political & economic pressure cannot be brought through the UN to rid
the country of their increasingly unpopular and despotic leaders.  Instead,
as has happened repeatedly during the last 20 years they're about be done
over again.

These people have been through suffering we can't dream of, and here we are
convincing ourselves that its OK to bomb lots more of them to shit because
all the innocent ones will have run away.

For shame.

pk