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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (236)	10/19/2001 11:35:13 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306

Alan, Here's a viewpoint that agrees with me.. An excerpt stolen from another thread.. Check out the whole article if you want to.. <<No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak By BARBARA KINGSOLVER Barbara Kingsolver is the author of, among other books, "The Poisonwood Bible" and "Prodigal Summer." This article will appear in a forthcoming collection of essays October 14 2001 TUCSON -- I cannot find the glory in this day. When I picked up the newspaper and saw "America Strikes Back!" blazed boastfully across it in letters I swear were 10 inches tall--shouldn't they reserve at least one type size for something like, say, nuclear war?--my heart sank. We've answered one terrorist act with another, raining death on the most war-scarred, terrified populace that ever crept to a doorway and looked out. The small plastic boxes of food we also dropped are a travesty. It is reported that these are untouched, of course--Afghanis have spent their lives learning terror of anything hurled at them from the sky. Meanwhile, the genuine food aid on which so many depended for survival has been halted by the war. We've killed whoever was too poor or crippled to flee, plus four humanitarian aid workers who coordinated the removal of land mines from the beleaguered Afghan>>> Message 16523111 coug