Letter on The Coming Massacres in Afghanistan Richard E. Rubenstein Prof. of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs October 10, 2001 Dear Friends, Up to this point, the war in Afghanistan seems relatively "clean." This is partly because the primary U.S. targets have been military facilities, most of them outside heavily populated areas, and reported Al-Qaeda camps, most of them empty -- and also because, for obvious reasons, the Afghan government will not publicize the number of soldiers' lives lost in these raids. In addition, we know that there are civilian refugees dying because hundreds of thousands have been forced to...