Hi Carl,
Re: Your Food Aid Post ~
That was a marvelous post. Thanks. You really have covered the food aid issue remarkably well. Better than anything I've seen in the media, in fact. Pat yourself on the back for that one. :)
There is nothing in your post that I care to quibble with. Just one observation, quite speculative, granted, on my comments about propaganda and the public. In the photo #1:
time.com
we see an elderly Afghani gentleman who is holding 4 of the "flutters" - packages that apparently were rained down from the sky. A couple of weeks ago, I saw something similar that was held up at a Pentagon news briefing. In the Pentagon briefing, the packages appeared to be about 8x10", yet when we look at the LA Times image, since there is no way to judge scale, we would seemingly be looking at packages that are about twice that size. Why should this matter? Because the image that is being represented as a generous offering to a suffering people, may have been manipulated by using a very diminuitive Afghani, in order to seduce the American public into thinking we're doing more than we actually are for the civilians of Afghanistan.
Mind you, I have no proof of this, I have no way of knowing if there are several sizes of parcels that are being sent, and I have no way of knowing if the package contents, described at the Pentagon briefing as 90% wheat, 7% lentils and 3% other protein sources, has actually been altered to the "Heavy on beans and lentils," that the LA Times states. But there are some inconsistencies and it makes me wonder.
Let's just say, what appears in the white bread press looks far more generous than what I saw on C-SPAN at the press briefing.
Call me a doubting Thomas....... and one who agrees totally that there is a military purpose to the pattern of air drops. But that's just one part of it, IMHO.
Regards, Ray :) |
