Like I said in my longer post, I think we have to do two things at
once - make them pay a high price and show our own people and them that
we do retailiate - and - do the humane and truly helpful thing by
instituting humanitarian aid.


> No, it isn't all that practical.  But, much like what you wrote, it's
good
> food for thought.
>
> C
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raw Food Diet Support List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Liza May
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 7:33 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > 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?
>