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To: Lucretius who started this subject11/1/2001 8:59:12 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Pushto Comes to Shove - or how to prolong the war

Today the House International Relations Committee marks
up and sends to the floor a bill to establish and finance
"Radio Free Afghanistan" with $15 million. It requires the
Radio Free Europe organization to submit a plan within
two weeks to the Broadcasting Board of Governors that
would broadcast our potent message in Pushto and other
languages to Afghans. R.F.E., with its front line in Prague,
is ready to snap into action.

But you're not going to believe who's against it. "The
Administration is not ready at this time," goes a
foot-dragging letter from the State Department to the
chairman, Henry Hyde, "to commit to the concept of a
'Radio Free Afghanistan.' Our choice of options will
depend in part on how the situation in Afghanistan evolves
over the coming weeks."

How's that for urgency? I assumed this lackadaisical
approach to a wartime need was the work of some
striped-pants type at State worried about the effect of
straight talk on our Muslim brethren. Wrong. Ashen-faced
buck-passers lead one to the office of Elliott Abrams at
the National Security Council in the White House. He was
behind that strange reluctance to have R.F.A. tell the
anti-Taliban story to Afghans.

nytimes.com
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