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Subject: Re: [CSL] A view from Afghanistan
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:44:09 +0200
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Dear John, dear Joanne, dear Tamim (and others),
The more I hear and read in official media, and the more I try to
analyze
those messages underlying the words (like "... hunt them down ..." or
"...
smoke them out ...", or, referring to an arrested man on an AMTRAK
train,
"... he looked arabic, with a beard and a turban ...") the more I feel
like
I am already on a rollercoaster heading back into the stone age. The
voices
of reason - I do find them so rarely these days. I do indeed find them
on
the Cyber-Society-List, and it is an immense relief. It is such a
consolation - not only do you make me feel less lonely, but you also
give me
back hope when I desperately need it, in order to survive mentally, and
emotionally.
Thank you for the courage to speak up aganist those preaching deaf- and
blindness - it is so important not to give in !
Ursula Ganz-Bldttler, Zurich (Switzerland)
----- Original Message -----
From: John Armitage <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: [CSL] A view from Afghanistan
> From: "denise.argent" <[log in to unmask]>To: CSL
> Subject: A view from Afghanistan - A sobering essay forwarded by a UC
> Berkeley professor
> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:46:31 +0100
>
>
>
> From: "ruben garcia" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Subject: A view from Afghanistan
>
>
>
> A sobering essay forwarded by a UC Berkeley professor:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> The following was sent to me by my friend Tamim Ansary. Tamim is an
> Afghani-American writer. He is also one of the most brilliant
> people I know in this life. When he writes, I read. When he
> talks, I listen.
> Here is his take on Afghanistan and the whole mess we are in.
> -Gary T.
>
>
>
> Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread:
>
> I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the
> Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed that this
would
>
> mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this
> atrocity, but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage. What
> else can we do?" Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing
> whether we "have the belly to do what must be done."
(...)
Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
>
> Tamim Ansary
>
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