Re: Bush budget has 0 dollars for Afghanistan

From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 07:44:23 MST

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    In a message dated 2/17/2003 7:57:49 AM Central Standard Time,
    rblackford@hotmail.com writes: This is a legitimate concern. If a war is
    necessary, we will need to reconstruct Iraq massively, but there seems to be
    no program for doing this. We seem to have dropped the ball in Afghanistan,
    where was certainly necessary to get rid of the Taliban.

    Russell,
           Having rid the Afghanistan of the Taliban you seem to be taking on the
    additional burden of supporting them. Even a little thought will show that
    your analysis is faulty. One of the major concerns before destroying the
    Taliban was that there was going to be major loss of life due to starvation
    during the winter. The Taliban had made no provision to feed the population
    and that was the result. Yet we know there was no major starvation in
    Afghanistan. In addition we also remember the many stories about the
    schools, roads, etc., being rebuilt after the Taliban were gone. In addition
    you have not accounted for the ability of the Afghanistani government and
    people to do for themselves. They have a pipeline under development that is
    supposed to generate trillions of dollars of revenue so one might reasonably
    ask at what point the US is relieved of the necessity to do for the Aghani
    what they can easily do for themselves.
           Naturally the average person on this list does not get a daily report
    on expenditures inside Afghanistan so it is easy to come in here and feed us
    a cock & bull story. We are at war and from long experience we know we face
    at least two kinds of predators. There are those on the other side that
    carry guns and attempt to kill us. There are those within our own country
    that try to smooth the way for those with guns.
    Ron h.



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