Posted by Hibernian Psycho on October 03, 2001 at 17:31:20:

In Reply to: Re: About the Bush administration's handling of the terrorism... posted by Tuars on October 03, 2001 at 08:01:20:

"I like your phrase in the post below "mass emigration".
A nice bit of euphemistic doublespeak to gloss over the ugly
reality of what is happening in Afghanistan. By
your own logic, the people of Afghanistan are being
starved in order to destabilise the Taliban
government. Is that not another form of terrorism?"

It was not my intention to trivialize the plight of so many Afghans, and I'm sorry that you took it the wrong way. By the way, if you've been up with the news for the past few years, you'd know that the Taliban is already a greater monster than the US ever could be. It's not uncommon for the undernourished people of Afghanistan to see their mother shot for speaking out of turn or to even blow up on a 1980s landmine. I don't see how they deserve a cruise missile on the doorsteps of their hovels, and I know it won't come to that.

PS, there was another mass emigartion from Ireland in the 1840s, you might have heard of it.

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