"People are burning animal dung if they can get hold of that. The whole area has been deforested. Many have eaten the seeds they were going to plant, they have sold their tools for food and they haven't any water to grow anyway."
I know that I was mad about September 11th. I still am. But the people of Afghanistan didn't do this to us. One extremist group did this. One group. So everyone else starves.
Sure, the US sounds pretty big. We're winning. So what? We're winning against a country that has absolutely nothing.
No wonder the rest of the world hates us.
This may be a bit simplistic, but let me explain how I see this situation. The Taliban is like a child, one of many. Afghanistan is its little brothers and sisters. We're the big kid. The Taliban just did something like eat our homework or wreck our bike. So we're mad. We decide to beat up its little brothers and sisters, for something this one kid did. The little brothers and sisters had nothing to do with it. But we decided to beat them up anyway.
Like I said, simplistic. And I am in no way comparing the destruction of the WTC to someone eating your homework.
Sure we can smack around someone who is smaller and has less defenses. It's easy. It's not fair either. It's like when I was younger. If I bugged my
older brother he'd get mad at me and sit on me or something. But this one time, I bugged him while he was doing his homework or something else that was really important. He wrapped me up in masking (or was it duct?) tape and put the piano bench in the hallway so I couldn't go get Mom.
posted by Val at 12/04/2001 05:10:00 PM
