Posted by Tuars on October 03, 2001 at 14:06:38:

In Reply to: Re: advice posted by advisor on October 03, 2001 at 12:54:53:

So you believe in the myth of precision bombing
do you?

Unfortunately, bombs do not discriminate between
the innocent and the guilty.

Did you not learn anything from the disasters in
Iraq, Kosovo and the Sudan?

Already the mere threat of bombing has caused chaos
in Afghanistan and has certainly led to further
innocent deaths.

The motivation behind any attack on Afghanistan is
to take out any infrastructure that exists, in order
to destabilise the government. This includes
electricity, water supplies, roads, hospitals.
This was the strategy in Yugoslavia. All these things were
considered legitimate targets because they were helping
to bring down the government (even though they didn't
succeed in doing that). This has devestating effects
for the ordinary people of the country and usually
does precious little to remove the regime that is
oppressing them. In fact it may have the opposite
effect in that it drives the people to support them.

I am all for bringing the guilty to justice. I just
don't think this is the best way of going about it.
and I'm sure the leaders of the free world know that too
so I am a little bit suspicious of their motives.

It's quite obvious to me that the Afghani people
are being used as pawns in the game.

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