US Food Aid Propaganda
James B. DiGriz
jbdigriz at dragonsweb.org
Wed Oct 10 10:07:14 PDT 2001
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
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