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Mir Tamim Ansary on Afghanistan
You can't bomb us back into the Stone Age. We're already there. But you can start a new world war, and that's exactly
what Osama bin Laden wants
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Mir Tamim Ansary on Afghanistan
I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." Ronn Owens [2], on KGO Talk Radio
today, allowed that this would mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this atrocity, but "we're
at war, we have to accept collateral damage. What else can we do?" Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing
whether we "have the belly to do what must be done."
And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived
here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all
looks from where I'm standing.
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 agree that something must be done about those monsters.
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