No, we are a humane people, and as President Bush has stated, we are not at war with the Afghan people. Most of the troublemakers over there are Arabs and Pakistanis anyway. You're right, war isn't pretty. I don't know if we dropped food for the Japanese and the German kids---no, wait a minute! We did drop food for the German kids during the Berlin Airlift-after the war, when the Soviets were causing trouble. It's funny that these same kids who were "the enemy" were worthy of us dropping food and chewing gum just a short time later. A lot of GIs gave food, chocolate and gum to Italian and German kids during the war as well. Should they have watched them go hungry, just because "war is hell"?
You're sort of right about one thing---when you said we were trying to "buy their love". Of course we are--we need to keep these Northern Alliance people happy so that they will help us out. One hand washes the other and all that. That's another part of war, too. Only it's not "buying their love" it's "winning hearts and minds". So what if it's a propaganda campaign? You make it sound like there's something wrong with it.
Well as you applaud the US being a prostitute that is the laughing stock of the Islamic world..I will repeat something a political analist said on fox when this started (you may have forgotten but this started when some Pakastani men rammed a plane into the WTC)
Any way he said this war would be far different than the cold war,that the Russians loved their lives more than they loved their philosophy. He observed that the Muslims love their religion more than their lives.
So now the question for us is what do we love more,our lives or our faith?
Yes, there is something wrong with it. Dropping food has nothing to do feeding the Afghans (a terribly short-sighted thing to do -- until they abandon paganism) and everything to do with assauging the imagined 'guilt' of American liberals.
They starved last decade and last year and they will starve next year and next decade -- unless they abandon their paganism. Cute their children may be -- all children are cute -- but with their beclouded minds suffused with paganism very dangerous to us. But I guess if you weren't in the WTC and don't expect to fly or open mail, not to you.