RW> Hello all!

 RW> I note in this morning's COmmercial Appeal here in MEmphis
 RW> an article stating that all the U.N. food aid distribution
 RW> sites have been closed down thanks to Al Qaeda suicide
 RW> bomber attacks, etc.

 RW> Readers of other FIdonet echoes of this type will recall a
 RW> heated debate over disaster aid and preparedness in another
 RW> echo I was involved in.  A person essentially on the other
 RW> side of many of the issues asked why no concern over the
 RW> flooding and natural disasters in Pakistan.

 RW> Then I stated that with the TAliban and Al Qaeda getting
 RW> tacit support from the Pakistani government I saw no reason
 RW> that we should put one dime's worth of aid in their hands,
 RW> and would still say the same.

 Yet, the plan should be to undermine the Taliban and the
 Pakistani govt. An awful lot of Pakistanis don't like the
 Taliban, or Al Qaeda, or their govt. We need to make use of
 those facts.

 RW> I applaud the U.N. relief agencies' decision.
 RW> I truly believe that the U.N. relief workers should be
 RW> evacuated post haste, and all the food stocks and other
 RW> materials which cannot be taken out with them should be
 RW> destroyed.

 Uhh... innocent people will die. Remember, Al Qaeda kills more
 Muslims than non-Muslims. And every time they attack they make
 more enemies. I do believe a lot of Pakistanis died in that
 attack, didn't they?

 Remember, when the USSR pulled out of Afghanistan they didn't
 settle back and rest, they expanded.



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