[plug] [OT again] Why the US will lose in Afghanistan, take II

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 05:02:35 +0800
> From: Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: Perth Linux User Group <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Subject: [plug] [OT again] Why the US will lose in Afghanistan, take II
> Resent-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:00:47 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> 
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21880&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=2335879
> 
> Most telling quote:
> 
> > We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone
> > Age. Trouble with that scheme is, it's already been done. The Soviets
> > took care of it . 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?
> > There is no infrastructure. Cut them off from medicine and health
> > care? Too late. Someone already did all that.
> 
> What can the USA do which has not already been done? Someone suggested
> bombing Kabul with 100,000 $USD100.00 notes. Ridiculous? Maybe. Certainly 
> food for thought.
> 
> PS, if anyone else got a copy of that Microsoft mail, please send me a copy 
> of all of the addresses in it. I'll work hard and carefully for your 
> anonymity.
> 
> 
> 

Perhaps it is time to shoot the messenger.

Can we please have an end to all this crap?