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To: Pokey78
"The bombing should stop," argues Schell, "and a new policy--perhaps one of armed humanitarian intervention on the ground--should be adopted."

NO. The US Army is not a police force or a welfare agency. Having our troops scattered throughout the country interacting with the locals is a sure way to get them killed.

If aid groups can't protect their people, their vehicles, or their supplies from the Taliban, then they shouldn't be there.

Set up shop across the border in Pakistan or Tajikistan or whatever, and make the people come to them, unarmed, for food.

Make sure they know WHY they have to walk for miles to another country to eat---the Taliban would murder them and steal it all if they could.

4 posted on 10/25/2001 11:58:41 AM PDT by ZOOKER
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To: ZOOKER
"The bombing should stop," argues Schell, "and a new policy--perhaps one of armed humanitarian intervention on the ground--should be adopted."

When will these morons realize that an "armed humanitarian intervention" is what we're doing right this very moment in Afghanistan? Personally, I can hardly wait for it to become an armed humanitarian intervention on the ground. Let's start an armed humanitarian intervention in that legendary Afghan cave network, too.

And when we're done, we need to have an armed humanitarian intervention in Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Iran, too.

The most humanitarian thing we could do is forcibly remove the corrupt, despotic governments of the Middle East, post haste.

I just can't stand craven cowardice posing as moral superiority. Sheesh!

5 posted on 10/25/2001 2:02:38 PM PDT by Nineteen_Kilo
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