| As the article at http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/11/CBAfgh1116.htm
attests, the US Government, under the excuse of hunting
down one man, is dropping cluster munitions all over
Afghanistan. These munitions are not weapons that hit a
specific target. They are literally spread around to
cause as much generalized damage as possible, usually of
an anti-personnel nature. They kill people. Any people.
Doesn't have to be the enemy. But this ruthlessness does not stop there. The US, claiming humanitarian concerns, has started dropping food packets on Afghanistan. But in the meantime, the US has also stopped all other humanitarian aid into Afghanistan, even to the point of bombing the Red Cross food warehouse twice! This makes the air dropped food packets the ONLY food source reaching the starving civilians in afghanistan and amounts to less than 10% of the food which was able to reach them before the war. And here is where it gets nasty. Those American food packets bear more than a passing resemblance to the unexploded cluster munitions. |
| Now, just for a moment imaging you are an Afghani
child. You are starving. You don't read English. You
certainly have no more control over whoever attacked the
World Trade Towers than Americans citizens had over the
CIA when it killed 80 innocent people with a car bomb in
Beirut in 1985. All the previous sources of food have
been blockaded or bombed. You see a bright yellow
hand-sized object in front of you, printed with a strange
and unreadable language, and you know such packages
usually contain food. Then you lose your hand, possibly your eyes, possibly even your life. Joke's on you, courtesy the US Government. |
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