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To: Graystone who wrote (92867)	4/12/2003 2:01:57 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Surely, at the start of our 21st century, we should have evolved beyond the point where we reduce a country and a people to dust, for the flimsiest of excuses. The War in Afgahnistan was based on a flimsy excuse? Although the rest of the diatribe is easy to refute, I won't because the author's facts are untrustworthy if this is analysis of the war. The general methodology of using perfection as the yardstick to measure Afghanistan instead of measuring progress since the fall of the Taliban is odious. Afghanistan has been in a state of war for 30 years. It will take a very long time to get even a basic level of functioning across the entire country. Afghanistan will be a Rorshack test for people of all political stripes for a long time. People forget that the UN is running the humanitarian show in Afghanistan. Paul