Jerome, get your facts straight, more than 50% of the funding for humanitarian agencies that are (or should I say, were) operating in Afghanistan came from the US, at least according to a recent interview I heard on CNN. It is not US soldiers that shoot women down for not wearing the proper dress, for teaching girls in hiding and for such huge transgression as "infidelity" (by the way, even the Kuran requires four (not two as the bible requires) eye witnesses to adultery (the actual act of intercourse, mind you, not a Clinton like cigar) to carry on a death sentence, show me one case where such four witnesses were brought to the fore), these are young men (most orphaned from the Soviet/Afghan conflict) that where indoctrinated into such barbarism. I have not seen any Tutu from Rwanda taking a plane and crushing it into Paris, their condition is even more deplorable than that of the Afghan or Iraqi. Now you'll tell me you got to "understand" these orphans, they suffered a lot from the war. Well my friend, it is up to the society that take cares of these orphans to direct their anger and pain into positive outlets, not the terrorizing of their own people. Europe was left with just as many orphans after WWII, and none of these took loaded planes to crash them into major population areas of countries that are not even close to the cause of their misery. The tragedies in Afghanistan and Iraq are of their own making, Saddam did not have to invade Kuwait, use chemical weapons on its own Kurd population and in its war with Iran, and the various factions in Afghanistan could have chosen to talk to each other rather than fight for ever for power. If we allowed such a tyrannical government in our own country, we would end up with massive starvation as well.
Zeev |
