Edited by author 03-17-2003 08:54 PM
"the post-war situation we see in Afghanistan..... still isn't good...is largely hidden"

QrazyQat - i'm sorry but that statement upsets me. What EXACTLY isn't good about people not being executed during halftimes of soccer games? How about children playing in the streets or girls FINALLY being able to go to school? Whats terrible about thousands of refugees crossing the borders and returning to their hometowns to start their lives again and live in peace.

just what in the whole wide world are you talking about?

and what is hidden? I read two or three articles about the rebuilding of Iraq a week(NYTimes has a "Kabul notebook" article that appears frequently) and although i want more, i am encouraged by what i read from various news sources.

What exaclty is so terrible about the fact that President Karzai was assurted that US aid and support would not disapear and he would not have to worry about being abandoned.

Yes, the Taliban attacked the United States, but it is a TERRIBLE thing that it took an attack for the world to take notice of the hate and aggression that was being bred in that country. In hindsight - don't you think it would have been prudent to move against the Taliban BEFORE 9/11?? I think it would have been a good idea and so did a lot of people at the time. But they were being called "warmongers" by a certain slice of the population who desire peace at the cost of oppressed and slaughtered people. A descpicable position to take in the world.


"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth fighting for is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill