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Originally posted by G'kar:
If you live in a big city in the US, you know that there is a homeless/hunger problem here that didnt go away through the prosperous 90s. Feeding the Worlds hungry, particularly the children, should be a high priority for anyone of conscience.
For the first time UNICEF is giving the entire take from thier halloween collection drive to one cause: feeding the kids in Afganistan.
The food relief effort is handicaped by the airstrikes and threat of more attacks. Further more the money and resources being used to bomb the talibon could be directed to humanitarian efforts. "Food not bombs!" instead of "Bombs and food!" Of course one could argue that as long as the talibon is in power in Afganistan, even more will suffer, so the fact that more people are on the brink of starvation now is irrelevant because they would be suffering anyway. The talibon didnt bother food-aid workers before 9-11 unless they broke one of their many laws, like trying to convert muslims to christiananity. The infrastructure that supported humanitatarian efforts there has all but gone since the the bombs began dropping.
I dunno, if I had a choice between getting food to millions or bombing a few I'd give the food.
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Feeding them would be great, but we can't feed Afghanistan's population
for the Taliban, while allowing them to harbor those who would plot to kill American's.
If feeding all the people in Afghanistan would stop terrorism, I'd say stop the bombing right now. But it won't stop terrorism, if anything, it would enable it. If we continue feeding the many (we already were doing this before 9-11), and stop bombing "the few" despite their association with Osama Bin Laden and his murderous activities, what would be the deterent to the few? What message would be sent to others who mean Americans harm? We feed their population, and they do what they want to us without fear of retaliation? It doesn't work on any level.
And to paraphrase some of what was said above, we can't even feed everyone in America, how could we justify feeding those who kill American's.
Love and friendship won't stop a bully, or a backstabber, unless you first draw "the line". Even then, it won't happen immediately. The best we can hope for, in this situation, is to temper justice and punishment with mercy.
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[This message has been edited by Ronn_Bman (edited 10-30-2001).]