[GEC]

Next we need to start dropping shoes.

[ThePoetsRaven]

Encouraging pictures. Thank you.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Thanks for posting those pictures. I appreciate it.

[egarvue]

What is this? Isn't our courageous media supposed to be showing us how horrible the U.S. is by displaying pictures of bombed out baby milk factories and old folks' homes? How dare the publish this...propaganda that makes the U.S. look like it actually cares about the women and children of Afghanistan, unlike the ruling Taliban there! [/sarcasm]

[ScreamingFist]

From your previous thread

"No they dont all "look alike" but they all hate Christians and Jews alike.."birds of a feather..."

Here ya go RM7, some of those ALWFUL muslims. Boo!

[egarvue]

On a serious note, does anyone have a close up of what's written on the sides of those food packets we're dropping?

[r9etb]

Just an observation: These people are not in Taliban territory: you can see it in the womens' faces (more accurately: you can see the womens' faces).

Also, the little girl looks suspiciously clean and cute.

I really hope the pics are authentic, but I have to suspect it's our own propaganda.

[big gray tabby]

A famous photo that brought the plight of the Afghan people to the attention of tree-huggers and armchair bon vivants simply with those eyes.

[1Old Pro]

YUMMY

[Saundra Duffy]

Children all over the world are beautiful. For victory & freedom!!!

[Pentagram]

To partly quote an article:

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KOJABAHUDDIN, Afghanistan - In a food market in this dusty, drought-stricken town in northern Afghanistan, a Tajik woman paid 70 cents for one of the strange new yellow packages that have recently gone on sale.

''Food Gift from the People of the United States of America,'' the package read in English, a language the woman did not understand. Above the words, however, were images anyone could comprehend: an American flag and a drawing of a smiling man raising a spoon to his mouth.

The woman opened the bag and pulled out a package of peanut butter and a package of jelly. She tried them. She did not like them. She fed them to her donkey. He liked them.

quoting further

"The product is not cheap: each packet costs roughly $4.25 to produce."

and still further

"''If you would give peanut butter to a severely malnourished child, you are likely to do more harm than good,'' said Lucas Van den Broeck, executive director of the New York-based Action Against Hunger."

You can view the link http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/298/nation/Puzzle_and_profits_in_the_food_drops+.shtml

I am forced to conclude that the airdrops are a bad idea. A useless idea. A pointless idea. We spend $4.25 to help some profiteer make $0.70, and then the food is either fed to the donkey or isn't good for them.

It's worse than a mistake. It's silly.

[A CA Guy]

Hey, those pictures are of Santa Ana California!

[Norb2569]

You know 30 years ago, the Vietnamese kids ripped my heart out. They would look me in the eye and smile. They were too innocent to fear or hate me.

Looking at these kids, all the memories and emotions and tears come to the surface.

Children, especially hungry children, are helpless.

It is so important to do whatever we can to feed them. They are the next generation and I would much rather hire them in 15 years than have to send my future grandsons over there to fight them.

[TrueReform]

Looks like the children know how to handle peanutbutter and jelly sandwishes. They are the ones that should get the bulk of the aid anyhow. I say we should quit being so critical. How many of us would do any better?

[Hemlock]

God bless the children.

[Capt.YankeeMike]

theyre kinda like cats, cute and cuddly as kittens, but then they grow up with that certain ATTITUDE.....

[AlGone2001]

God bless our President!

[Zviadist]

This PR is supposed to make us feel better about bombing the sh*t out of them?

[MichaelP]

How about showing these on the nightly news, and the rest...

Of course, we're the great Satan!........even among the domestic news companies....

Mike

[rickmoe]

those photos are enough to make you weep.