Powerful words from an Afghani-American writer
The full post can be found here: <http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=15746682>
For some short quotes to give you an idea:
_[…]
We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone
Age. Trouble is, that’s been done. The Soviets took care of it
already. Make the Afghans suffer? They’re already suffering. Level
their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done.
Eradicate their hospitals? Done. Destroy their infrastructure? Cut
them off from medicine and health care? Too late. Someone already
did all that.
[…]
We’re flirting with a world war between
Islam and the West.
And guess what: that’s Bin Laden’s program. That’s exactly what he
wants. That’s why he did this. Read his speeches and statements.
It’s all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It
might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world
into Islam and the West, he’s got a billion soldiers. If the west
wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that’s a billion people with
nothing left to lose, that’s even better from Bin Laden’s point of
view. He’s probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever
that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions would
die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden
does. Anyone else?_