RE: US Food Aid Propaganda
Peter Trei foolishly wrote:
The US airdrops replaced, at the very maximum, less then 2.5% of the food whose delivery was prevented by the bombing.
I'm reminded of the recent corporate ad from RJ Reynolds, where they made of deal of delivering some amount (less then 10 tons, I think) or aid to Kosovo. That amounted to a single truckload. They then spent many times the cost of the aid on airtime to trumpet their humanitarian efforts.
This is the kind of statement that deserves reporting among the 250,000 tips the FBI has received on its finger-a-terrorist website hotline. Fucking traitors always disclose the classified bottom line math behind the body counts.
John Young wrote:
Peter Trei foolishly wrote:
The US airdrops replaced, at the very maximum, less then 2.5% of the food whose delivery was prevented by the bombing.
I'm reminded of the recent corporate ad from RJ Reynolds, where they made of deal of delivering some amount (less then 10 tons, I think) or aid to Kosovo. That amounted to a single truckload. They then spent many times the cost of the aid on airtime to trumpet their humanitarian efforts.
This is the kind of statement that deserves reporting among the 250,000 tips the FBI has received on its finger-a-terrorist website hotline.
Fucking traitors always disclose the classified bottom line math behind the body counts.
If a result of the bombing is to make humanitarian aid both easier and ultimately less necessary then it'll have been worth it. Not that that's the reason for it. jbdigriz
On Wednesday, October 10, 2001, at 10:07 AM, James B. DiGriz wrote:
John Young wrote:
Peter Trei foolishly wrote:
The US airdrops replaced, at the very maximum, less then 2.5% of the food whose delivery was prevented by the bombing.
I'm reminded of the recent corporate ad from RJ Reynolds, where they made of deal of delivering some amount (less then 10 tons, I think) or aid to Kosovo. That amounted to a single truckload. They then spent many times the cost of the aid on airtime to trumpet their humanitarian efforts.
This is the kind of statement that deserves reporting among the 250,000 tips the FBI has received on its finger-a-terrorist website hotline. Fucking traitors always disclose the classified bottom line math behind the body counts.
If a result of the bombing is to make humanitarian aid both easier and ultimately less necessary then it'll have been worth it. Not that that's the reason for it.
You think? Wiping out the airfields, knocking out the lines of supply, all of this is essential to getting several million Afghanis to flee onto the mountain trails, where the snows will soon get them. This is essential to rooting out terrorism by reducing the terrorist breeding grounds by several million. But, cheer up! 15,000 more orange food packlets are being scattered from 15,000 feet. And, I hear, at least 400 emergency tents are being dropped along the Khyber Pass. Operation Final Solution should be successful by, say, January 20th. We won't be able to do Bomb Damage Assessment until the spring thaw, however. --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"
Tim May wrote:
You think?
Wiping out the airfields, knocking out the lines of supply, all of this is essential to getting several million Afghanis to flee onto the mountain trails, where the snows will soon get them. This is essential to rooting out terrorism by reducing the terrorist breeding grounds by several million.
But, cheer up! 15,000 more orange food packlets are being scattered from 15,000 feet. And, I hear, at least 400 emergency tents are being dropped along the Khyber Pass.
Operation Final Solution should be successful by, say, January 20th.
We won't be able to do Bomb Damage Assessment until the spring thaw, however.
--Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"
Afghans have been living, fighting, conducting their daily affairs, playing, or alternatively, starving and dying, amidst bombs and shells landing amongst them for quite some time now. Some of the footage PBS has been airing is pretty dramatic about this. Don't see most of them fleeing for the mountains unless maybe forced at gunpoint, which I doubt would work. A few days and any bombed out roads or runways will be repaired enough to get the aid trucks rolling again. If you want to argue that the U.S. should not have got itself in the position of having to send its military over there (and all which *that* entails), I'd concur, but that's another matter, and irrelevant at this point, as far as the war itself is concerned. jbdigriz
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