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? >