Re: This makes me proud of my President

> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 07:08:13 -0400
> From: Niel Bornstein <niel-eVhvBAtfTHk423YV9hPXO9/[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Bonobos] This makes me proud of my President
>
> At 06:49 PM 10/4/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >It's a lot more compassionate and strategic than walking away, whistling,
> >from the pharmaceutical factory you just destroyed... ;-)
>
> Putting on my cynical hat after reading about the fighter escort the
supply
> planes will have, it may also be an excuse to target anyone on the ground
> with a Stinger.

Targeting anyone on the ground with a Stinger would be the least of it.
-It's an annoucement that in spite of the lack of targets, air bombing will
begin.
-It's intended for Americans to think "How good we are, we even drop them
food", when that obviously is not going to feed many people (ask an American
soldier who has gone through being fed by air supplies) and eliding the fact
that
much time has passed and refugees aren't getting much help and that when
help
comes it is usually from the UN and the United States don't even carry out
their
financial obligations towards the UN in full.

Miguel Ramos