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To: Amy J who wrote (143677)	9/18/2001 8:07:02 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy, It appears they are willing to lose their life because they are hopeless. I do not believe that "hopelessness" is the answer and neither is money. I read a quote once from a communist leader, I think either Marx or Stalin. Basically, the gist of the quote is that the capitalists will give us, i.e. communists, money so that in the end we can hang them with it. I do not believe sending ground forces into Afghanistan is the answer. Face it, we as Americans are used to "instant gratification". What I believe the US should do is send a few cruise missiles to some uninhabited place in Afghanistan and claim a huge body count. Then, secretly, eliminate all terrorists. This is not something that will go away overnight and there are no quick "fixes".

To: Amy J who wrote (143677)	9/18/2001 9:15:01 AM
From: GVTucker	Respond to of 186894

Here's a letter from an Afghan native who is now a published author living in the US I am from Afghanistan, and even though I’ve lived here for 35 years, I’ve never lost track of what’s been going on over there. So I want to share a few thoughts with anyone who will listen. I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. There is no doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I fervently wish to see those monsters punished. But the Taliban and Bin Laden are not Afghanistan. They’re not even the government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who captured Afghanistan in 1997 and have been holding the country in bondage ever since. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a master plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think “the people of Afghanistan” think “the Jews in the concentration camps.” Some say, if that’s the case, why don’t the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban themselves? The answer is, they’re starved, exhausted, damaged, and incapacitated. A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan — a country with no economy, no food. Millions of Afghans are widows of the approximately 2,000,000 million men killed during the war with the Soviets. The soil of Afghanistan is littered with land mines and almost all the farms have been destroyed. We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age. Trouble with that scheme is, it’s already been done. The Soviets took care of it. Make the Afghans suffer? They’re already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. New bombs would only land in the rubble of earlier bombs. Flying over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn’t really be a strike against the criminals who did this horrific thing. I don’t have a solution. But I do believe that suffering and poverty are the soil in which terrorism grows. Bin Laden and his cohorts want to bait us into creating more such soil, so they and their kind can flourish. We can’t let him do that. — Tamim Ansary link: msnbc.com