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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (11722)	11/27/2001 1:18:25 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 281500

>>Before the stuff with the USSR started, Afghanistan was religiously moderate and on the way to modernization. I believe there's nothing intrinsic to prevent that from happening again.>> Excellent. The only worry I have is changing a thought and action from men who have spent their lives at war. That can be a great change. But the culture is there, I believe also. Our actions with Iraq have been useless, and harmful, for a long time, imo. It only hurts the citizen and not the regime that we are, supposedly, after. Rather like Cuba. There is a group in San Francisco (don't know if they are national) called "Food not Bombs". There is a serious thought there. Why do the people of Afganistan welcome us? It's real clear. If we starved the people to take out the Taliban it would neither work nor feed people. There is a clear way to go after Iraq. It's not like the people like the dude in charge.