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To: maceng2 who wrote (10885)11/19/2001 5:11:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Yet the galling thing is that they still don't have the decency or clarity to admit they were wrong.

For three weeks we ignored UN and aid agency pleas to temporarily halt the bombing for a few weeks, so food could be rushed in before the crippling snowfalls. For weeks, we staked everything on the fighting spirit of the Northern Alliance at a time when no one seemed sure if they would ever move at all. It has all along been a helluva gamble with the lives of millions -- one we barely seemed conscious of taking.

This implies that they were urging a prudent policy, as opposed to our "gamble". But as you said, allowing the Taliban to use the hungry as hostages would have dragged the famine on for years.
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