NP - The making of a hawk

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I might be turning my attentions on the new Afghani government (the smaller
stones comment just blew me away!), but Noam Chomsky really isn't. I've read
and heard quite a lot of him lately, and his comments on it are pretty
minimal.  I think the only reason he mentions it at all is to serve the
point that the bullshit excuses we hold so dear and use to justify this
bloody war--one excuse being that Afghanistan will be so much better off
without the ruthless Taliban--aren't so comforting when we see the reality
of the situation, and when we realize how little Afghanistan will changed as
a result of these US "efforts."


----- Original Message -----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <jbor at bigpond.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: NP - The making of a hawk


>
> Bingo, jbor!  For Chomsky and co. the US can do nothing good.  This
> criticism that religious repression in Afghanistan will continue, only to
a
> lesser degree, is beyond the point.  The US mission was not the liberation
> of Afghanistan, though that has been a side benefit (maybe not so under
> certain warlords' rule - the present government body is only interim).
Our
> mission there was self-protection by way of dismantling a terrorist
> stronghold dedicated to our destruction.  That mission is not complete,
but
> it has been more successful than C & co. would have liked.
>
> David Morris
>
> >From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
> >
> >Yes, it's typically one-eyed and quite hypocritical of Chomsky and co.,
in
> >their seemingly interminable anti-US propaganda campaign, to suddenly
shift
> >their attention to savage this new Afghani government and ethnic customs
> >which, however deplorable to Western sensibilities, are being practised
> >across the board in Islamic nations, when previously what they were
urging
> >was that the Taliban's even harsher regime and its injustices towards
> >Afghani women in particular be left intact.
>
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