No, it isn't all that practical.  But, much like what you wrote, it's good
food for thought.

C

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Liza May
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 7:33 AM
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> Subject: Re: Love Conquers All
>
>
> > Instead, bomb Afghanistan with butter, wholesome food, music,
> celebration,
> > help, and kindness.
>
> Sounds beautiful but the butter would melt, and how precisely do you
> drop music, celebration, help and kindness out of a plane?
>
>
> > Bomb them with information: video players and cassettes of world
> leaders,
> > including Islamic, condemning terrorism, showing the horror of
> terrorism.
>
> There are no wall sockets to plug these things into.
>
> > Blitz them with laptop computers, internet access to information,
> including
> > feminist equality in their language so that they can understand what
> the
> > Taliban does not want them to know.
>
> Do you honestly think that dropping a laptop computer with links to
> intellectual feminist tracts, down to a starving Afghani, dying of
> exhaustion and disease, in a remote mountainous area of huts with
> thatched roofs and dirt floors and terrified young men with guns hiding
> around every corner, is a realistic solution?