-- On 15 Dec 2001, at 12:47, Mark Henderson wrote:
A particularly powerful article by Robert Fisk on his beating in Afghanistan.
Someone who is too blind to recognize evil when it heaves a rock at his head needs some more rocks in the face to improve his vision. Those pashtun were not enraged because Israel dispossesses and mistreats palestinians in a far away country. They are enraged because they cannot dispossess and murder their neighbors. Like any sensible person far away from either Palestine or New York, they have little concern for the crimes of either Bin Laden or Sharon. However a short while ago, the Taliban was slaughtering various minority groups, throwing their bodies into wells to poison the ground water, bulldozing their houses and irrigation ditches, cutting down their mulberry trees and bulldozing their vines. Now they cannot do that any more. I hope Fisk goes back there for some more beatings. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG rDzhp9vaztxu9LGuvurmu0k3hJGMEwZ/BQIA3uac 42/nbpsiaeGccDCbwrQHrHwPPE/D5RZZri3JQ2E7q