> 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?